hardened

Meanings

• become hard or harder
  • "The wax hardened"
• make hard or harder
  • "The cold hardened the butter"
• harden by reheating and cooling in oil
• make fit
• cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate
• used of persons; emotionally hardened
  • "faced a case-hardened judge"
• made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment
• protected against attack (especially by nuclear weapons)
  • "hardened missile silos"
• made tough by habitual exposure; ; - Robert Lynd; - V.S.Pritchett
  • "hardened fishermen"
• converted to solid form (as concrete)

Synonyms

case-hardened, enured, hard-boiled, harden, indurate, inure, inured, season, set, temper, tempered, toughened, treated