What is "hardened" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does hardened mean in English? Meaning of hardened definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "hardened" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "hardened": used of persons; emotionally hardened

Adjective

  • Meaning: used of persons; emotionally hardened
  • Example: faced a case-hardened judge
  • Synonyms: case-hardened hard-boiled hardened
  • Similar: hard
  • Meaning of "hardened": made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment

    Adjective

  • Meaning: made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment
  • Example: a sword of tempered steel tempered glass
  • Synonyms: hardened tempered toughened treated
  • Antonyms: unhardened untempered
  • Similar: curable sunbaked
  • Meaning of "hardened": protected against attack (especially by nuclear weapons)

    Adjective

  • Meaning: protected against attack (especially by nuclear weapons)
  • Example: hardened missile silos
  • Synonyms: hardened
  • Antonyms: soft
  • Meaning of "hardened": made tough by habitual exposure

    Adjective

  • Meaning: made tough by habitual exposure
  • Example: hardened fishermen a peasant, dark, lean-faced, wind-inured our successors...may be graver, more inured and equable men
  • Synonyms: enured hardened inured
  • Similar: tough toughened
  • Meaning of "hardened": converted to solid form (as concrete)

    Adjective

  • Meaning: converted to solid form (as concrete)
  • Synonyms: hardened set
  • Similar: hard
  • Adjective: simple past tense and past participle of harden
  • Synonyms:

    seasoned, callous, prepared, unbending, benumbed, accustomed, habituated, contemptuous, cruel, disdainful, hard-boiled, hardhearted, heartless, impenetrable, impious, inaccessible, irreverent, obdurate, obtuse, resistant, uncaring, unemotional, hard-bitten, uncompassionate, coldhearted, inured, indurated, steeled, toughened, case-hardened, hard-as-nails, unashamed, unrepenting, unsubmissive,

    Antonyms:

    compassionate, kind, feeling, nice, sympathetic,

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    hardened in English: hardened
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