Meaning of hardened in English

1. Pronunciation

   /ˈhɑrdnd/

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1. Classifying Adjective

   hardened

   Definitions

   1. used of persons

   Examples

   • « emotionally hardened »
   • « faced a case-hardened judge »

   Synonyms

   • hard
2. 2. made tough by habitual exposure

   Examples

   • « hardened fishermen »
   • « a peasant, dark, lean-faced, wind-inured- Robert Lynd »
   • « our successors...may be graver, more inured and equable men- V.S.Pritchett »

   Synonyms

   • tough
   • toughened
3. 3. converted to solid form (as concrete)

   Synonyms

   • hard

4. Qualitative Adjective

   hardened

   Definitions

   1. made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment

   Examples

   • « a sword of tempered steel »
   • « tempered glass »

   Synonyms

   • annealed
   • baked
   • burned
   • burnt
   • curable
   • sunbaked

   Antonyms

   • untempered
   • unhardened