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. Australian Immigration Minister Peter Dutton:

   It is a hardened criminal population that occupies the immigration detention center on Christmas Island, obviously the priority for today has been to restore calm to the center. That has taken place.

2. Tulsi Gabbard:

   Both sides have completely hardened their positions and are unwilling to come together and work out the differences, and that's the problem here.

3. Matt Gilligan:

   As a result, this vitally important program is now well positioned for predictable performance and strong execution going forward, raytheon firmly believes that GPS OCX is the best path forward to meet the country's needs for a completely capable and cyber hardened ground control system and the nation's full modernization requirements without compromise.

4. David Lublin:

   Many House seats are safe simply because party lines have hardened.

5. Robert LaVoy Finicum:

   We used to could walk up to them and talk with the FBI agents in a friendly manner... but the tenor has changed, they have become more hardened. When they step out of their vehicles now they're stepping out with their rifles and they're not willing to engage in just friendly dialogue...