hardened
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                    Adjective
                    
                made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment; "a sword of tempered steel"; "tempered glass"
                
                    Adjective
                    
                protected against attack (especially by nuclear weapons); "hardened missile silos"
                
                    Adjective Satellite
                    
                used of persons; emotionally hardened; "faced a case-hardened judge"
                
                    Adjective Satellite
                    
                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
                
                    Adjective Satellite
                    
            converted to solid form (as concrete)