Hardened

hardened
    adj 1: used of persons; emotionally hardened; "faced a case-
           hardened judge" [syn: {case-hardened}, {hardened}, {hard-
           boiled}]
    2: made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat
       treatment; "a sword of tempered steel"; "tempered glass"
       [syn: {tempered}, {treated}, {hardened}, {toughened}] [ant:
       {unhardened}, {untempered}]
    3: protected against attack (especially by nuclear weapons);
       "hardened missile silos" [ant: {soft}]
    4: made tough by habitual exposure; "hardened fishermen"; "a
       peasant, dark, lean-faced, wind-inured"- Robert Lynd; "our
       successors...may be graver, more inured and equable men"-
       V.S.Pritchett [syn: {enured}, {inured}, {hardened}]
    5: converted to solid form (as concrete) [syn: {hardened},
       {set}]
    

Harden \Hard"en\ (h[aum]rd"'n), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Hardened}
   (-'nd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Hardening} (-'n*[i^]ng).] [OE.
   hardnen, hardenen.]
   1. To make hard or harder; to make firm or compact; to
      indurate; as, to harden clay or iron.
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   2. To accustom by labor or suffering to endure with
      constancy; to strengthen; to stiffen; to inure; also, to
      confirm in wickedness or shame; to make unimpressionable.
      "Harden not your heart." --Ps. xcv. 8.
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            I would harden myself in sorrow.      --Job vi. 10.
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Hardened \Hard"ened\ (-'nd), a.
   1. Made hard, or harder, or compact; made unfeeling or
      callous; made obstinate or obdurate; confirmed in error or
      vice.

   2. Rendered resistant to the effects of nearby explosions;
      as, a hardened missile silo; hardened warhead electronics.
      [PJC]

   3. Experienced and inured to hardship; as, hardened combat
      troops.
      [PJC]

   4. Strongly habituated to a certain type of behavior, and
      unlikely to change; as, a hardened criminal. Usually used
      only of behavior perceived negatively.
      [PJC]

   Syn: Impenetrable; hard; obdurate; callous; unfeeling;
        unsusceptible; insensible. See {Obdurate}.
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91 Moby Thesaurus words for "hardened":
      Philistine, acclimated, acclimatized, accommodated, accustomed,
      adapted, adjusted, annealed, backed, brazen, calcified, callous,
      calloused, case-hardened, cold, cold of heart, coldblooded,
      coldhearted, conditioned, conscienceless, crusted, crusty,
      crystallized, experienced, familiarized, flinthearted, flinty,
      fossilized, granulated, hard, hard of heart, hard-boiled,
      hardhearted, heartless, hornified, impenitent, impervious,
      incrusted, indurate, indurated, insensitive, insolent, inured,
      lapidified, lost to shame, naturalized, obdurate, orientated,
      oriented, ossified, pachydermatous, petrified, proof against,
      reinforced, rigidified, run-in, sclerotic, seared, seasoned, set,
      shameless, solidified, steeled, steeled against, steely, stiffened,
      stony, stonyhearted, strengthened, tempered, thick-skinned,
      toughened, trained, unabject, unblushing, uncompassionate,
      uncontrite, unemotional, unfeeling, unmelted, unmerciful,
      unnatural, unrepentant, unrepenting, unresponsive, unsoftened,
      untouched, used to, vitrified, wont, wonted