Dictionary definition for: Hardened
1. (s) used of persons; emotionally hardened; "faced a case-hardened judge"
2. (a) made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment; "a sword of tempered steel" "tempered glass"
3. (s) 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
4. (s) converted to solid form (as concrete)
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