Hardened - Definition

adj 1: used of persons; emotionally hardened; "faced a case-
hardened judge" [syn: case-hardened, hardened, hard-
boiled]
2: made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat
treatment; "a sword of tempered steel"; "tempered glass"
[syn: tempered, treated, hardened, toughened] [ant:
unhardened, untempered]
3: protected against attack (especially by nuclear weapons);
"hardened missile silos" [ant: soft]
4: 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, hardened]
5: converted to solid form (as concrete) [syn: hardened,
set]