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Meaning of hardened

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  hardened
      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}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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