Hardened
 

hardened
adjective1.used of persons; emotionally hardened; "faced a case-hardened judge"[syn: case-hardened]2.made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment; "a sword of tempered steel"; "tempered glass"[syn: tempered][ant: unhardened]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]5.converted to solid form (as concrete)