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Hardened   /hˈɑrdənd/   Listen
verb
Harden  v. t.  (past & past part. hardened; pres. part. hardening)  
1.
To make hard or harder; to make firm or compact; to indurate; as, to harden clay or iron.
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." "I would harden myself in sorrow."


Harden  v. i.  
1.
To become hard or harder; to acquire solidity, or more compactness; as, mortar hardens by drying. "The deliberate judgment of those who knew him (A. Lincoln) has hardened into tradition."
2.
To become confirmed or strengthened, in either a good or a bad sense. "They, hardened more by what might most reclaim."


adjective
Hardened  adj.  
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.
3.
Experienced and inured to hardship; as, hardened combat troops.
4.
Strongly habituated to a certain type of behavior, and unlikely to change; as, a hardened criminal. Usually used only of behavior perceived negatively.
Synonyms: Impenetrable; hard; obdurate; callous; unfeeling; unsusceptible; insensible. See Obdurate.





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"Hardened" Quotes from Famous Books



... the wretched condition of the roads. The fighting was sharp, the Confederates disputing every foot of territory. Both sides suffered heavily, and the weather made matters worse, yet nobody grumbled, for the enlisted men were now becoming hardened to the campaign, and realized that this fighting was only the introduction to the tremendous battles still ...
— An Undivided Union • Oliver Optic
... degree of heat or cold, they never vary their costume; and I believe there is not a people in the world so hardened against the weather. In the winter, during a cold of 10 deg. of Reaumur, the Kalushes walk about naked, and jump into the water as the best method of warming themselves. At night they lie without any covering, under the open sky, near a great fire, ...
— A New Voyage Round the World, in the years 1823, 24, 25, and 26, Vol. 2 • Otto von Kotzebue
... go over to the circle surrounding the trunks, and demand an explanation she heard a hardened miner ...
— Polly of Pebbly Pit • Lillian Elizabeth Roy
... immediately he spoke with them, and said to them, Be of good courage; it is I; be not afraid. [6:51]And he went up to them into the ship, and the wind ceased, and they were astonished in themselves above measure, and wondered; [6:52]for they understood not concerning the bread, for their heart was hardened. ...
— The New Testament • Various
... neither Tartufe nor Don Juan expresses so much of the mind of Moliere as does Le Misanthrope (1666). His private griefs, his public warfare, had doubtless a little hardened and a little embittered his spirit. In many respects it is a sorry world; and yet we must keep on terms with it. The misanthropist Alceste is nobly fanatical on behalf of sincerity and rectitude. How does his sincerity serve the world or serve himself? And he, too, has his dose of ...
— A History of French Literature - Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. • Edward Dowden


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