1
[ adjective ] used of persons; emotionally hardened

Examples

"faced a case-hardened judge"

Used in print

(Robert Penn Warren, Wilderness....)

He knew the faces of all , hairy or shaven , old or young , fat or thin , suffering or hardened , sad or gay , good or bad .

Related terms

hard

2
[ adjective ] used of persons; emotionally hardened

Examples

"faced a case-hardened judge"

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

Related terms

tough

4
[ adjective ] made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment

Examples

"a sword of tempered steel" "tempered glass"

5
[ adjective ] converted to solid form (as concrete)

Synonyms

set

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hard

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