HARDENED

• (adj.) protected against attack (especially by nuclear weapons)

  "hardened missile silos"

• (adj.) made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment

  "a sword of tempered steel", "tempered glass"

  synonyms : tempered , toughened , treated

• (adj.) converted to solid form (as concrete)

  synonyms : set

• (adj.) used of persons; emotionally hardened

  "faced a case-hardened judge"

  synonyms : case-hardened , hard-boiled

• (adj.) made tough by habitual exposure

  "hardened fishermen", "a peasant, dark, lean-faced, wind-inured", "our successors...may be graver, more inured and equable men"

  synonyms : enured , inured

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