hardened
hor duhnd
- v become hard or harder
The wax hardened - v make hard or harder
The cold hardened the butter - v harden by reheating and cooling in oil
- v make fit
- v cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate
- s used of persons; emotionally hardened
faced a case-hardened judge - a made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment
- a protected against attack (especially by nuclear weapons)
hardened missile silos - s made tough by habitual exposure
hardened fishermen - s converted to solid form (as concrete)
- At 20, Marwan is already a battle-hardened insurgent, a jihadi foot soldier in Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi's terrorist group, al-Qaeda in Iraq.
- This is what happened at Rancho Santa Fe, where foolish notions hardened into fatal certainties.
- Most are from comfortable middle-class backgrounds with little experience of the street battles in Mexico's hardened barrios.