hardened

Adjective
  1. Used of persons;
    Emotionally hardened (synset 301159329)
    "faced a case-hardened judge"
    similar to: hard - dispassionate
    same as: case-hardened, hard-boiled
  2. Made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment (synset 301525661)
    "a sword of tempered steel"; "tempered glass"
    similar to:
    • curable - capable of being hardened by some additive or other agent
    • sunbaked - baked or hardened by exposure to sunlight; not burned
    same as: tempered, toughened, treated
  3. Protected against attack (especially by nuclear weapons) (synset 301462080)
    "hardened missile silos"
  4. Made tough by habitual exposure (synset 302456852)
    "hardened fishermen"; "a peasant, dark, lean-faced, wind-inured"; "our successors...may be graver, more inured and equable men"
    similar to: tough, toughened - physically toughened
    same as: enured, inured
  5. Converted to solid form (as concrete) (synset 301155594)
    similar to: hard - resisting weight or pressure
    same as: set

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