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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Hardened \Hard"ened\, a. Made hard, or compact; made unfeeling or callous; made obstinate or obdurate; confirmed in error or vice. Syn: Impenetrable; hard; obdurate; callous; unfeeling; unsusceptible; insensible. See {Obdurate}. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Harden \Hard"en\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Hardened}; p. pr & vb n. {Hardening}.] [OE. hardnen, hardenen.] 1. To make hard or harder; to make firm or compact; to indurate; as to harden clay or iron. 2. To accustom by labor or suffering to endure with constancy; to strengthen; to stiffen; to inure; also to confirm in wickedness or shame; to make unimpressionable. ``Harden not your heart.'' --Ps. xcv. 8. I would harden myself in sorrow. --Job vi 10. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: hardened adj 1: used of persons; emotionally hardened; "faced a case-hardened judge" [syn: {case-hardened}, {hard-boiled}] 2: made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment; "a sword of tempered steel"; "tempered glass" [syn: {tempered}, {treated}, {toughened}] [ant: {untempered}] 3: 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}] 4: converted to solid form (as concrete) [syn: {set}]
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