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| 1. | [ adjective ] used of persons; emotionally hardened | |
| Synonyms: | hard-boiled case-hardened | |
| Examples: | "faced a case-hardened judge" |
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| Related terms: | hard | |
| 2. | [ adjective ] used of persons; emotionally hardened | |
| Synonyms: | hard-boiled case-hardened | |
| Examples: | "faced a case-hardened judge" |
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| Related terms: | hard | |
| 3. | [ adjective ] made tough by habitual exposure | |
| Synonyms: | inured enured | |
| 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 |
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| Related terms: | tough | |
| 4. | [ adjective ] made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment | |
| Synonyms: | treated toughened tempered | |
| Examples: | "a sword of tempered steel" "tempered glass" |
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| Related terms: | untempered baked curable sunbaked annealed | |
| 5. | [ adjective ] converted to solid form (as concrete) | |
| Synonyms: | set | |
| Related terms: | hard | |
| Similar spelling: |
harden hard-nosed harridan Hardeman hardening Harten Hardin Hardman Harding hard-on Hardenbrook Hardnett hardness |
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