Synonyms for hardened
hard·ened

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1. case-hardened, hardened, hard-boiledadjective

   used of persons; emotionally hardened

   "faced a case-hardened judge"

   Synonyms:
   tempered, toughened, set, inured, pugnacious, treated, case-hardened, enured, hard-boiled, hard-bitten

   Antonyms:
   untoughened, tender, soft

2. tempered, treated, hardened, toughenedadjective

   made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment

   "a sword of tempered steel"; "tempered glass"

   Synonyms:
   tough, toughened, set, tempered, inured, treated, case-hardened, enured, hard-boiled

   Antonyms:
   untoughened, tender, soft

3. hardenedadjective

   protected against attack (especially by nuclear weapons)

   "hardened missile silos"

   Synonyms:
   toughened, set, tempered, inured, treated, case-hardened, enured, hard-boiled

   Antonyms:
   tender, untoughened, soft

4. enured, inured, hardenedadjective

   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

   Synonyms:
   tempered, toughened, set, inured, treated, case-hardened, enured, hard-boiled

   Antonyms:
   untoughened, soft, tender

5. hardened, setadjective

   converted to solid form (as concrete)

   Synonyms:
   placed, treated, determined, set, fit(p), tempered, situated, toughened, hard-boiled, set(p), case-hardened, inured, primed(p), fixed, dictated, located, laid, enured, rigid

   Antonyms:
   soft, tender, untoughened

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1. hardenedverb

   Synonyms:
   indurated, made hard

2. hardenedverb

   Synonyms:
   confirmed, inured, accustomed, habituated, seasoned, trained

3. hardenedverb

   Synonyms:
   deadened, seared, steeled, unfeeling, benumbed, callous, insensible

4. hardenedverb

   Synonyms:
   depraved, reprobate, obdurate, impenitent, lost, abandoned, incorrigible, irreclaimable

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1. hardenedadjective

   Synonyms:
   indurated, callous, inexorable, ossified, petrified, obdurate, incorrigible, inveterate, case-hardened, seared, depraved, graceless, impenitent, confirmed, sclerosed, sclerotic

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1. List of paraphrases for "hardened":

   petrified, cemented, tightened, hard-core

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1. Vice President Biden:

   I think the American people want the federal government to give states monies to build prisons so no hardened criminal is let out, as they say, before his time.

2. Liberal Democrat:

   This has made international coverage, and Liberal Democrat hardened minority, this will strengthen their resolve and support for Liberal Democrat.

3. Michael Kugelman:

   For some hardened and impressionable radicals, bling could be as appealing as barbarity.

4. Rita Katz:

   He appeared as a commander of hardened mujahideen, of an insurgency group, not the pampered leader of a well-off caliphate, his appearance totally mobilized Islamic State's supporters all over the world.

5. Mahamat Kamoun:

   We have gone beyond a peacekeeping operation, it is now urban warfare led by ex-rebels and soldiers who are battle-hardened and it's not U.N. police officers that will be able to do anything about it.