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Hardened   /hˈɑrdənd/   Listen
verb
Harden  v. t.  (past & past part. hardened; pres. part. hardening)  
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." "I would harden myself in sorrow."



Harden  v. i.  
1.
To become hard or harder; to acquire solidity, or more compactness; as, mortar hardens by drying. "The deliberate judgment of those who knew him (A. Lincoln) has hardened into tradition."
2.
To become confirmed or strengthened, in either a good or a bad sense. "They, hardened more by what might most reclaim."



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



... as if Quintero, perhaps the least hardened of the three, was struck with the conviction that, in the extraordinary combination of circumstances which had led to the arrest of himself and his companions in villany, the finger of God was too distinctly visible ...
— Life in Mexico • Frances Calderon de la Barca

... before the dense vapor shut the house from view. His mother was standing in the door, with her baby in her arms, looking after him with a frightened, beseeching face. But his heart was hardened and he kept on,—kept on, with that deft, even tread of the mountaineer, who seems never to hurry, almost to loiter, but gets over the ground with ...
— The Young Mountaineers - Short Stories • Charles Egbert Craddock

... us, fellow countrymen, while we call your attention to the outrage on your rights, the contempt of personal obligations and the hardened cruelty involved in this detestable resolution. Condemn us not for the harshness of our language, before you hear our justification. We shall speak only the truth, but we ...
— The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus • American Anti-Slavery Society

... and Turkish irregulars were holding Acre, a town without regular defences, against Napoleon, the most brilliant military genius of his generation, with an army of 10,000 war-hardened veterans, the "Army of Italy"—soldiers who had dared the snows of the Alps and conquered Italy, and to whom victory was a familiar experience. In their ranks military daring had reached, perhaps, its very highest ...
— The Junior Classics • Various

... and conceived of a power of spirit beyond him, although he considered her both unreasonable and wrong. He grieved for her that she had carried such a great burden so bravely and so long. How great must have been her love, or her infatuation! The pathetic knowledge hardened his heart toward the young man in the jail, and he no longer tried to defend ...
— The Eye of Dread • Payne Erskine


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