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Definition of Hardened

1. Adjective. Used of persons; emotionally hardened. "Faced a case-hardened judge"

2. Adjective. Made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment. "Tempered glass"

3. Adjective. Protected against attack (especially by nuclear weapons). "Hardened missile silos"

4. Adjective. Made tough by habitual exposure. "Our successors...may be graver, more inured and equable men"

5. Adjective. Converted to solid form (as concrete).

Definition of Hardened

1. a. Made hard, or harder, or compact; made unfeeling or callous; made obstinate or obdurate; confirmed in error or vice.

Definition of Hardened

1. Verb. (past of harden) ¹

2. Adjective. Unfeeling or lacking emotion due to experience; callous. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Hardened

1. harden [v] - See also: harden

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hardened

hardcourts hardcover hardcovered hardcovers harddisk harddrive hardedge hardedges hardel hardels

harden harden someone's heart hardenabilities hardenability hardenable hardened (current term) hardened pelvis hardener hardeners hardenest

hardeneth hardening hardening of the arteries hardenings hardens harder harder-won harder put harderian harderian gland

Literary usage of Hardened

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings of the United States Naval Institute by United States Naval Institute (1897)
"Prior to the advent of face-hardened armor formulas for the penetration of ... With face-hardened armor, however, such a thing rarely happens under the ..."

2. The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury by Thomas ( Hobbes (1841)
"34 : When Pharaoh NO. xn. saw that the rain and the hail and the thunders "~ : .r were ceased, he sinned yet more, and hardened ..."

3. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke, Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress), John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (1822)
"When the engraver has completed his work upon a plate of this description, the inventor hardens it again ; and in this hardened state it is capable of ..."

4. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1901)
"It is well known that iron hardened by overstrain, for example, by permanent stretching, may have its original properties restored again by annealing, ..."

5. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1915)
"SPONTANEOUS GENERATION OF HEAT IN RECENTLY hardened STEEL. ... In each case the steel had been hardened only a few days prior to its use. ..."

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