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Princeton's WordNet

  1. case-hardened, hardened, hard-boiledadjective

    used of persons; emotionally hardened

    "faced a case-hardened judge"

  2. tempered, treated, hardened, toughenedadjective

    made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment

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

  3. hardenedadjective

    protected against attack (especially by nuclear weapons)

    "hardened missile silos"

  4. 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

  5. hardened, setadjective

    converted to solid form (as concrete)

GCIDE

  1. 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.

  2. Hardenedadjective

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

  3. 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

  1. hardenedadjective

    Unfeeling or lacking emotion due to experience; callous.

Wikipedia

  1. hardened

    Hardening is the process by which something becomes harder or is made harder.

ChatGPT

  1. 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

  1. Hardened

    of Harden

  2. Hardenedadjective

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

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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. 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.

  2. Pete Sessions:

    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.

  3. The Navy:

    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.

  4. Peter Feaver:

    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.

  5. Kevin Landy:

    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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