hardened Meaning, Definition & Usage

1. verb become hard or harder
   harden; indurate.
   
   • The wax hardened
2. verb make hard or harder
   harden; indurate.
   
   • The cold hardened the butter
3. verb harden by reheating and cooling in oil
   harden; temper.
   
   • temper steel
4. verb make fit
   harden; season.
   
   • This trip will season even the hardiest traveller
5. verb cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate
   harden; indurate; inure.
   
   • He was inured to the cold
6. adjective satellite used of persons; emotionally hardened
   case-hardened; hard-boiled.
   
   • faced a case-hardened judge
7. adjective made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment
   tempered; treated; toughened.
   
   • a sword of tempered steel
   • tempered glass
8. adjective protected against attack (especially by nuclear weapons)
   
   • hardened missile silos
9. adjective satellite made tough by habitual exposure
   inured; enured.
   
   • hardened fishermen
   • a peasant, dark, lean-faced, wind-inured"- Robert Lynd
   • our successors...may be graver, more inured and equable men"- V.S.Pritchett
10. adjective satellite converted to solid form (as concrete)
    set.
    

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