English to English
adjective
- made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment
A sword of tempered steel.
Tempered glass.
source: WordNet 3.0
- protected against attack (especially by nuclear weapons)
Hardened missile silos.
source: WordNet 3.0
- Made hard, or harder, or compact; made unfeeling or callous; made obstinate or obdurate; confirmed in error or vice.
source: Webster 1913
adjective satellite
- used of persons; emotionally hardened
Faced a case-hardened judge.
source: WordNet 3.0
- made tough by habitual exposure
Hardened fishermen.
A peasant, dark, lean-faced, wind-inured.
Our successors...may be graver, more inured and equable men.
source: WordNet 3.0
- converted to solid form (as concrete)
source: WordNet 3.0
