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hard·ened
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Princeton's WordNet
case-hardened, hardened, hard-boiledadjective
used of persons; emotionally hardened
"faced a case-hardened judge"
tempered, treated, hardened, toughenedadjective
made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment
"a sword of tempered steel"; "tempered glass"
hardenedadjective
protected against attack (especially by nuclear weapons)
"hardened missile silos"
enured, inured, hardenedadjective
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
hardened, setadjective
converted to solid form (as concrete)
GCIDE
Hardenedadjective
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.
Hardenedadjective
Experienced and inured to hardship; as, hardened combat troops.
Hardenedadjective
Strongly habituated to a certain type of behavior, and unlikely to change; as, a hardened criminal. Usually used only of behavior perceived negatively.
Wiktionary
hardenedadjective
Unfeeling or lacking emotion due to experience; callous.
Wikipedia
hardened
Hardening is the process by which something becomes harder or is made harder.
ChatGPT
hardened
Hardened generally refers to something that has become physically solid, firm, and rigid, often through a process of cooling, drying, or exposure to certain conditions. It can also refer to something that has been strengthened or made more resistant or robust. In a psychological context, it can describe a person who has become emotionally toughened or unfeeling through difficult experiences.
Webster Dictionary
Hardened
of Harden
Hardenedadjective
made hard, or compact; made unfeeling or callous; made obstinate or obdurate; confirmed in error or vice
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of hardened in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of hardened in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5
Examples of hardened in a Sentence
Australian Immigration Minister Peter Dutton:
It is a hardened criminal population that occupies the immigration detention center on Christmas Island, obviously the priority for today has been to restore calm to the center. That has taken place.
We've by and large entered a period of time where Republicans want to be represented by Republicans and Democrats want to be represented by Democrats, it makes things to where the person that represents those districts more hardened in their belief.
The first-in-class aircraft carrier was designed using advanced computer modeling methods, testing, and analysis to ensure the ship is hardened to withstand battle conditions, and these shock trials provide data used in validating the shock hardness of the ship.
Triangulation is a risky game because if you get the language off, you may commit yourself in a campaign to a line that makes no sense when you are governing, this is one of the hardest problems for newcomers and challengers when they are campaigning for president. By giving applause lines that work for the narrow segments of ideologically hardened factions that they are trying to win over for the primary, they can lock themselves into policy positions that are not sound when they actually win.
A large percent of ICE detainees have no criminal records and are more vulnerable in a prison setting – security staff and administrators at BOP facilities have spent their careers dealing with hardened criminals serving long sentences for serious felonies, and the procedures and staff training reflect that, this sudden mass transfer could result in some serious problems.
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