Definition of 'hardened'

See also: harden 

Adjective

1. used of persons; emotionally hardened; "faced a case-hardened judge"
      Synonyms: case-hardened hard-boiled
2. made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment; "a sword of tempered steel"; "tempered glass"
      Synonyms: tempered treated toughened
      Antonyms: untempered unhardened
3. protected against attack (especially by nuclear weapons); "hardened missile silos"
      Antonyms: soft
4. 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
      Synonyms: enured inured
5. converted to solid form (as concrete)
      Synonyms: set

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