[syn: hardened, set]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Harden \Hard"en\ (h[aum]rd"'n), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hardened
(-'nd); p. pr. & vb. n. Hardening (-'n*[i^]ng).] [OE.
hardnen, hardenen.]
1. To make hard or harder; to make firm or compact; to
indurate; as, to harden clay or iron.
[1913 Webster]
2. To accustom by labor or suffering to endure with
constancy; to strengthen; to stiffen; to inure; also, to
confirm in wickedness or shame; to make unimpressionable.
"Harden not your heart." --Ps. xcv. 8.
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I would harden myself in sorrow. --Job vi. 10.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Hardened \Hard"ened\ (-'nd), a.
1. Made hard, or harder, or compact; made unfeeling or
callous; made obstinate or obdurate; confirmed in error or
vice.
2. Rendered resistant to the effects of nearby explosions;
as, a hardened missile silo; hardened warhead electronics.
[PJC]
3. Experienced and inured to hardship; as, hardened combat
troops.
[PJC]
4. Strongly habituated to a certain type of behavior, and
unlikely to change; as, a hardened criminal. Usually used
only of behavior perceived negatively.
[PJC]
Syn: Impenetrable; hard; obdurate; callous; unfeeling;
unsusceptible; insensible. See Obdurate.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
hardened
adj 1: used of persons; emotionally hardened; "faced a case-
hardened judge" [syn: case-hardened, hardened, hard-
boiled]
2: made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat
treatment; "a sword of tempered steel"; "tempered glass"
[syn: tempered, treated, hardened, toughened] [ant:
unhardened, untempered]
3: protected against attack (especially by nuclear weapons);
"hardened missile silos" [ant: soft]
4: made tough by habitual exposure; "hardened fishermen"; "a
peasant, dark, lean-faced, wind-inured"- Robert Lynd; "our
successors...may be graver, more inured and equable men"-
V.S.Pritchett [syn: enured, inured, hardened]
5: converted to solid form (as concrete) [syn: hardened,
set]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
91 Moby Thesaurus words for "hardened":
Philistine, acclimated, acclimatized, accommodated, accustomed,
adapted, adjusted, annealed, backed, brazen, calcified, callous,
calloused, case-hardened, cold, cold of heart, coldblooded,
coldhearted, conditioned, conscienceless, crusted, crusty,
crystallized, experienced, familiarized, flinthearted, flinty,
fossilized, granulated, hard, hard of heart, hard-boiled,
hardhearted, heartless, hornified, impenitent, impervious,
incrusted, indurate, indurated, insensitive, insolent, inured,
lapidified, lost to shame, naturalized, obdurate, orientated,
oriented, ossified, pachydermatous, petrified, proof against,
reinforced, rigidified, run-in, sclerotic, seared, seasoned, set,
shameless, solidified, steeled, steeled against, steely, stiffened,
stony, stonyhearted, strengthened, tempered, thick-skinned,
toughened, trained, unabject, unblushing, uncompassionate,
uncontrite, unemotional, unfeeling, unmelted, unmerciful,
unnatural, unrepentant, unrepenting, unresponsive, unsoftened,
untouched, used to, vitrified, wont, wonted