hardened
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(satellite adjective) converted to solid form (as concrete) |
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Synonyms: set |
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(satellite adjective) used of persons; emotionally hardened; "faced a case-hardened judge" |
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Synonyms: case-hardened, hard-boiled |
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(adjective) made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment; "a sword of tempered steel"; "tempered glass" |
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Synonyms: tempered, toughened, treated |
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(satellite 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 |
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Synonyms: enured, inured |
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