hardened

Verb

• become hard or harder
  • "The wax hardened"
• make hard or harder
  • "The cold hardened the butter"
• harden by reheating and cooling in oil
• make fit
• cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate
• simple past and past participle of harden

Adjective Satellite

• used of persons; emotionally hardened
  • "faced a case-hardened judge"
• made tough by habitual exposure; ; - Robert Lynd; - V.S.Pritchett
  • "hardened fishermen"
• converted to solid form (as concrete)

Adjective

• made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment
• protected against attack (especially by nuclear weapons)
  • "hardened missile silos"

Adj

• Having been accustomed or desensitized to something unpleasant through exposure or experience; inured.
• Unfeeling; pitiless; callous.
• Firmly established in a behavior seen as bad; unlikely to change one's ways; inveterate.
• Having extra defences against attack; highly fortified.

Examples

• a hardened air base
• a hardened server
• hardened criminals
• hardened police officers
• hardened steel
• The bloody scene could reduce even the most hardened soldier to tears.

Synonyms

case-hardened, enured, hard-boiled, harden, indurate, inure, inured, season, set, temper, tempered, toughened, treated, callous, cold, cold-eyed, dour, flint-hearted, forbidding, frosty, grim, habituated, hard, hardened, hardhearted, harsh, heartless, humorless, icy, insensitive, iron-hearted, rigorous, rockhearted, severe, stern, stonehearted, stony, stonyhearted, strict, tough, unmoved, unsympathetic

Antonyms

soft, soften, untempered

Anagrams of hardened