Hardened Definition & Meaning
hardened
- adjective
- used of persons; emotionally hardened; "faced a case- hardened judge"
- made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment; "a sword of tempered steel"; "tempered glass"
- protected against attack (especially by nuclear weapons); "hardened missile silos"
- 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
- converted to solid form (as concrete)
"Hardened" in song lyrics
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"Just give me a second so I can get my thing hardened"
OG Spanish Fly — Chicano Love -
"Birth of these marksmen claimin to be dark men, hearts been hardened"
Prozak f/ Big Krizz Kaliko, Tech N9ne — Run Away -
"Never to be hardened"
Lyric w/ Mike Ladd — Let Us Go
Words that rhyme with hardened
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- What does hardened mean?
- used of persons; emotionally hardened; "faced a case- hardened judge" made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment; "a sword of tempered steel"; "tempered glass" protected against attack (especially by nuclear weapons); "hardened missile silos" 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 converted to solid form (as concrete)
- What part of speech is hardened?
- Hardened is an adjective.
- How many definitions does hardened have?
- Hardened has 5 definitions across 1 part of speech (adjective).