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Hardened   /hˈɑrdənd/   Listen
adjective
Hardened  adj.  
1.
Made hard, or harder, or compact; made unfeeling or callous; made obstinate or obdurate; confirmed in error or vice.
2.
Rendered resistant to the effects of nearby explosions; as, a hardened missile silo; hardened warhead electronics.
3.
Experienced and inured to hardship; as, hardened combat troops.
4.
Strongly habituated to a certain type of behavior, and unlikely to change; as, a hardened criminal. Usually used only of behavior perceived negatively.
Synonyms: Impenetrable; hard; obdurate; callous; unfeeling; unsusceptible; insensible. See Obdurate.






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"Hardened" Quotes from Famous Books



... dead waste, sighed. He whistled, and Sally came instantly to the call and dropped her head beside his own. She, at least, had not changed in the long pursuits and the hard life. It had made her gaunt. It had hardened and matured her muscles, but her head was the same, and her changeable, human eyes, the eyes of a ...
— Way of the Lawless • Max Brand

... more; and Davis, without answering a single word, slunk forwards towards the forecastle, anxious, apparently, to hide himself from observation. Although he had tried to brave it out when the captain first began to speak to him, even his hardened nature had to succumb before the contemptuous looks of the men he had so long bullied, the more especially as they now openly displayed their joy ...
— The White Squall - A Story of the Sargasso Sea • John Conroy Hutcheson

... the Old Bay State Marzynski on a Sunday stood behind His counter, well content his gain to find In pipes not pills, cigars not carbonate. From breakfast till 'twas dusk at half-past eight Tobacco cheered this hardened sinner's mind, The price of it his pockets, disinclined To add their dime to the collection plate. The State Attorney claimed the penalty; "Cigars are no cigars," said the defence, "But drugs, and ...
— Briefless Ballads and Legal Lyrics - Second Series • James Williams

... went on. The men, whitened by the indoor life of the winter, were beginning to take on a bronze tan. Muscles hardened and become more springy. Running legs improved. The pitchers were sending in swifter balls, Joe included. The fungo batters were sending up better flies. The training work ...
— Baseball Joe in the Big League - or, A Young Pitcher's Hardest Struggles • Lester Chadwick

... him to give the child a sementera to work." About the same time the young man informs his mother of his relations with the girl, and of her condition, and again the maker of a people's morals seems to attempt to mold the already hardened clay. She says, "My son, that is bad. Why have you done it? Why do you not marry her?" And the son answers simply and truthfully, "I have another girl." Without attempt at remonstrance the father gives a rice sementera to the child when it is 6 or 7 years old, for that is the price ...
— The Bontoc Igorot • Albert Ernest Jenks


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