Hardened Common

Hardened has 7 different meanings across 1 category:

Definitions

Verb

simple past tense and past participle of harden

"The old riverbank had hardened after weeks of freezing temperatures, making it impossible to cross without a boat."

Adjective

used of persons; emotionally hardened

"faced a case-hardened judge"

case-hardened hardened hard-boiled

made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment

"a sword of tempered steel"

"tempered glass"

tempered treated hardened toughened

protected against attack (especially by nuclear weapons)

"hardened missile silos"

hardened

made tough by habitual exposure

"hardened fishermen"

"a peasant, dark, lean-faced, wind-inured"

"our successors...may be graver, more inured and equable men"

enured inured hardened

converted to solid form (as concrete)

"The workers waited for the poured foundation to fully hardened before placing the next layer of bricks."

hardened set

Unfeeling or lacking emotion due to experience; callous.

"After years of dealing with betrayal, she had hardened her heart and no longer cared what others thought of her."

Example Sentences

"faced a case-hardened judge" adjective

"a sword of tempered steel" adjective

"tempered glass" adjective

"hardened missile silos" adjective

"hardened fishermen" adjective

"a peasant, dark, lean-faced, wind-inured" adjective

"our successors...may be graver, more inured and equable men" adjective