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Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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	Harden \Hard"en\ (h[aum]rd"'n), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hardened
   (-'nd); p. pr. & vb. n. Hardening (-'n*[i^]ng).] [OE.
   hardnen, hardenen.]
   1. To make hard or harder; to make firm or compact; to
      indurate; as, to harden clay or iron.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. To accustom by labor or suffering to endure with
      constancy; to strengthen; to stiffen; to inure; also, to
      confirm in wickedness or shame; to make unimpressionable.
      "Harden not your heart." --Ps. xcv. 8.
      [1913 Webster]

            I would harden myself in sorrow.      --Job vi. 10.
      [1913 Webster]

	


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Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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	Hardened \Hard"ened\ (-'nd), a.
   1. Made hard, or harder, or compact; made unfeeling or
      callous; made obstinate or obdurate; confirmed in error or
      vice.

   2. Rendered resistant to the effects of nearby explosions;
      as, a hardened missile silo; hardened warhead electronics.
      [PJC]

   3. Experienced and inured to hardship; as, hardened combat
      troops.
      [PJC]

   4. Strongly habituated to a certain type of behavior, and
      unlikely to change; as, a hardened criminal. Usually used
      only of behavior perceived negatively.
      [PJC]

   Syn: Impenetrable; hard; obdurate; callous; unfeeling;
        unsusceptible; insensible. See Obdurate.
        [1913 Webster]

	


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Source: WordNet (r) 2.0
hardened
	hardened
     adj 1: used of persons; emotionally hardened; "faced a
            case-hardened judge" [syn: case-hardened, hard-boiled]
     2: made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat
        treatment; "a sword of tempered steel"; "tempered glass"
        [syn: tempered, treated, toughened] [ant: untempered]
     3: 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 [syn: enured, inured]
     4: converted to solid form (as concrete) [syn: set]

	


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Source: Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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	91 Moby Thesaurus words for "hardened":
   Philistine, acclimated, acclimatized, accommodated, accustomed,
   adapted, adjusted, annealed, backed, brazen, calcified, callous,
   calloused, case-hardened, cold, cold of heart, coldblooded,
   coldhearted, conditioned, conscienceless, crusted, crusty,
   crystallized, experienced, familiarized, flinthearted, flinty,
   fossilized, granulated, hard, hard of heart, hard-boiled,
   hardhearted, heartless, hornified, impenitent, impervious,
   incrusted, indurate, indurated, insensitive, insolent, inured,
   lapidified, lost to shame, naturalized, obdurate, orientated,
   oriented, ossified, pachydermatous, petrified, proof against,
   reinforced, rigidified, run-in, sclerotic, seared, seasoned, set,
   shameless, solidified, steeled, steeled against, steely, stiffened,
   stony, stonyhearted, strengthened, tempered, thick-skinned,
   toughened, trained, unabject, unblushing, uncompassionate,
   uncontrite, unemotional, unfeeling, unmelted, unmerciful,
   unnatural, unrepentant, unrepenting, unresponsive, unsoftened,
   untouched, used to, vitrified, wont, wonted

	

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