hardened
Pronunciation Verb
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Pronunciation Verb
- Simple past tense and past participle of harden
- hardened steel
hardened
- Having been accustomed or desensitized to something unpleasant through exposure or experience; inured.
- hardened police officers
- Unfeeling; pitiless; callous.
- The bloody scene could reduce even the most hardened soldier to tears.
- Firmly established in a behavior seen as bad; unlikely to change one's ways; inveterate.
- hardened criminals
- (computing, military) Having extra defences against attack; highly fortified.
- a hardened air base
- a hardened server
- French: endurci
- German: gehärtet
- Italian: indurito
- Portuguese: endurecido
- German: abgehärtet, verhärtet
- Russian: огрубе́вший
- Spanish: endurecido, aguerrido
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