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English adjective: hardened | |||
| 1. | hardened used of persons; emotionally hardened | ||
| Samples | Faced a case-hardened judge. | ||
| Synonyms | case-hardened, hard-boiled | ||
| Similar | hard | ||
| Antonyms | soft | ||
| 2. | hardened made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment | ||
| Samples | A sword of tempered steel. Tempered glass. | ||
| Synonyms | tempered, toughened, treated | ||
| Similar | curable, sunbaked | ||
| Antonyms | unhardened, untempered | ||
| 3. | hardened protected against attack (especially by nuclear weapons) | ||
| Samples | Hardened missile silos. | ||
| Antonyms | soft | ||
| 4. | hardened made tough by habitual exposure | ||
| Samples | Hardened fishermen. A peasant, dark, lean-faced, wind-inured. Our successors...may be graver, more inured and equable men. | ||
| Synonyms | enured, inured | ||
| Similar | tough, toughened | ||
| Antonyms | untoughened, tender | ||
| 5. | hardened converted to solid form (as concrete) | ||
| Synonyms | set | ||
| Similar | hard | ||
| Antonyms | soft | ||
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