Associations to the word «Hardened»

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.
William Butler Yeats