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hardened

har·de·ned

UK/ˈhɑːdn̩d/ US/ˈhɑɹd(ə)nd/ uncommon

adjective

1.

used of persons; emotionally hardened

  • “faced a case-hardened judge”
2.

made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment

  • “a sword of tempered steel”
  • “tempered glass”
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
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4.

converted to solid form (as concrete)

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