Associations to the word «Hardened»
Noun
- Frost
- Abdomen
- Tenderness
- Kernel
- Nickel
- Heart
- Plaque
- Titanium
- Conscience
- Groundwater
- Lust
- Missile
- Binder
- Runway
- Cruel
- Anvil
- Cock
- Sandstone
- Deformation
- Villain
- Remorse
- Cinder
- Detainee
- Plate
- Gaze
- Pebble
- Glue
- Flint
- Battle
- Attitude
- Seedling
- Iron
- Temper
- Limestone
- Rockwell
- Linux
- Flesh
- Microprocessor
- Beetle
- Nail
- Manhood
- Nimitz
- Underground
- Copper
- Slime
- Warrior
- Sole
- Fingertip
- Plow
- Valve
- Misery
- Molding
- Bribe
- Bearing
- Dispersal
- Blade
- Corrosion
- Carnage
- Sclerosis
Adjective
Adverb
Wiktionary
HARDENED, verb. Simple past tense and past participle of harden
HARDENED, adjective. Unfeeling or lacking emotion due to experience; callous.
Dictionary definition
HARDENED, adjective. Used of persons; emotionally hardened; "faced a case-hardened judge".
HARDENED, adjective. Made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment; "a sword of tempered steel"; "tempered glass".
HARDENED, adjective. Protected against attack (especially by nuclear weapons); "hardened missile silos".
HARDENED, adjective. 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.
HARDENED, adjective. Converted to solid form (as concrete).
Wise words
Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary
meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the
truants in custody and bring them back to their right
senses.