hardened

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/ˈhɑːdn̩d/ English

Definitions

verb

To become hard (tough, resistant to pressure).
To make something hard or harder (tough, resistant to pressure).
To strengthen.
To modify (a website or other system) to make it resistant to malicious attacks.

adjective

Unfeeling or lacking emotion due to experience; callous.“The bloody scene could reduce even the most hardened soldier to tears.”
Firmly established or unlikely to change; inveterate.
Having extra defences against attack; highly fortified.“a hardened air base”

Related words

Synonyms

inure hard tough case-hardened tempered set burnt sunbaked treated baked hard-boiled annealed burned enured inured toughened hard-core

Associated

gentoo hardening silos serrated gelatin stiff hardness spine resin caudal steel

Rhymes

pardoned gardened appleyard and archard and ard and arda and backyard and bard and barde and barnyard and

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