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hardened

[ hahr-dnd ]

adjective

  1. made or become hard or harder.
  2. pitiless; unfeeling.
  3. firmly established or unlikely to change; inveterate:

    a hardened criminal.

  4. inured; toughened:

    a hardened trooper.

  5. rigid; unyielding:

    a hardened attitude.

  6. (of a missile base) equipped to launch missiles from underground silos.
  7. (of a missile) capable of being launched from an underground silo.


hardened

/ ˈhɑːdənd /

adjective

  1. rigidly set, as in a mode of behaviour
  2. toughened, as by custom; seasoned
  3. (of a nuclear missile site) constructed to withstand a nuclear attack


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Other Words From

  • semi·hardened adjective
  • un·hardened adjective
  • well-hardened adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of hardened1

Middle English word dating back to 1325–75; harden, -ed 2

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Example Sentences

Many of them are convicted drug dealers and other hardened criminals.

The cells are austere—essentially hardened trailers—that cost about $40,000 each to build.

A generation of Syrian kids have the far-away gazes of battle-hardened soldiers returning from war.

She reportedly told them, “Sophie Lyons is a hardened criminal, and too smart to be caught like this.”

A comedy titan who was always the center of attention, amusing even the most hardened of cynics with his manic energy.

Even Haggard, case-hardened as he was, didn't light his cigar for full twenty minutes.

Why hast thou made us to err, O Lord, from thy ways: why hast thou hardened our heart, that we should not fear thee?

And they have not hearkened to me: nor inclined their ear: but have hardened their neck, and have done worse than their fathers.

A hardened dealer once went near a large meeting of men with a wagon load of bottles containing cold tea.

The hardened devils of Anzacs, who had taken cover betwixt the shell-proofs built of piles of stores, roared with laughter.

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