Definitions for hardened
hard·ened

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1. case-hardened, hardened, hard-boiled(adj)

   used of persons; emotionally hardened

   "faced a case-hardened judge"

2. tempered, treated, hardened, toughened(adj)

   made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment

   "a sword of tempered steel"; "tempered glass"

3. hardened(adj)

   protected against attack (especially by nuclear weapons)

   "hardened missile silos"

4. enured, inured, hardened(adj)

   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

5. hardened, set(adj)

   converted to solid form (as concrete)

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1. Hardened(a.)

   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.

2. Hardened(a.)

   Experienced and inured to hardship; as, hardened combat troops.

3. Hardened(a.)

   Strongly habituated to a certain type of behavior, and unlikely to change; as, a hardened criminal. Usually used only of behavior perceived negatively.

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1. hardened(Adjective)

   Unfeeling or lacking emotion due to experience; callous.

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1. Hardened

   of Harden

2. Hardened(adj)

   made hard, or compact; made unfeeling or callous; made obstinate or obdurate; confirmed in error or vice

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1. adherend

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of hardened in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of hardened in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of hardened in a Sentence

1. David Lublin:

   Many House seats are safe simply because party lines have hardened.

2. Michael Kugelman:

   For some hardened and impressionable radicals, bling could be as appealing as barbarity.

3. Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi:

   Post-World War idealism is giving way, slowly but surely, to a hardened, militaristic approach.

4. G. K. Chesterton:

   People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.

5. Le Drian:

   It's very complicated. We will have to ensure the Iraqi and Kurdish forces are sufficiently battle-hardened to lead this battle.

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