hardened

hardened has 7 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 8.

Definitions

• imp. & p. p.. of Harden
• a.. Made hard, or compact; made unfeeling or callous; made obstinate or obdurate; confirmed in error or vice.
• a.. converted to solid form (as concrete)
• a.. used of persons; emotionally hardened; "faced a case-hardened judge"
• a.. protected against attack (especially by nuclear weapons); "hardened missile silos"
• a.. made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment; "a sword of tempered steel"; "tempered glass"
• a.. 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