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hardenedadjective able to withstand hardship, strain, or exposurehardened from years of deprivation and grief, the man regarded the house fire as just another misfortune in a life filled with them cast-iron, hard, hard-bitten, hardy, inured, rugged, stout, strong, sturdy, tough, toughened, vigorous flinty, leathery, resilient, stalwartdurable, enduring, everlasting, immortal, imperishable, lasting, permanent, stable, staunch(also stanch), staying, tenacious, unyieldingflourishing, prospering, thrivingable-bodied, brawny, muscularfit, fortified, hale, healthy, husky, lusty, red-blooded, robust, sound, strapping, virileannealed, seasoned, tempered delicate, nonhardy, soft, tender, weak emasculated, enervated, enfeebled, exhausted, run-down, sapped, wasted, weakened, worn, worn outcrippled, debilitated, diseased, incapacitated, infirm, unsoundfragile, frail, punyresistless, sensitive, susceptible, unresistant, vulnerable, yieldingmortal, perishable, temporary, transient sticking to an opinion, purpose, or course of action in spite of reason, arguments, or persuasionhardened cynics regarded those TV shows as being anything but reality-based adamant, adamantine, bullheaded, dogged, hard, hard-nosed, hardheaded, headstrong, immovable, implacable, inconvincible, inflexible, intransigent, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, opinionated, ossified, pat, pertinacious, perverse, pigheaded, self-opinionated, self-willed, stiff-necked, stubborn, unbending, uncompromising, unrelenting, unyielding, willful(or wilful) anal-retentive, obsessivewayward, wrongheadeddetermined, hell-bent, inexorable, persistent, relentless, resolved, set, single-minded, steadfast, stouthearted, tenacious, unflinchingfirm, hard-line, hard-shell(or hard-shelled), iron, severe, stern, stricthidebound, narrow-minded, rigidbloody-minded(chiefly British), cantankerouscontrary, cussedcontumacious, disobedient, froward, insubordinate, intractable, recalcitrant, refractory, uncooperative, ungovernable, unmanageable, unrulydefiant, insurgent, mutinousindomitable, invincible, unconquerableconfirmed, inveterate, unregeneratedemanding, exacting deaf to reason acquiescent, agreeable, amenable, compliant, complying, flexible, pliable, pliant, relenting, yielding docile, obedient, placable, submissive, tractableaccepting, persuadable, receptive, responsive, willinggovernable, manageable, reasonable, temperateslavish, subservient hardenedverbpast tense of hardento become physically firm or solidthe glue begins to harden as soon as it is exposed to air concreted, congealed, firmed (up), froze, indurated, set, solidified caked, callused, encrusted(also incrusted)clotted, coagulated, gelated, gelatinized, gelled, jelled, jellied, stiffened, thickenedcalcified, crystallized(also crystalized), ossified, petrified, rigidifiedannealed, case-hardened, tempered liquefied(also liquified), softened deliquesced, dissolved, fluxed, fused, melted, smelted, thawed, unfroze to make able to withstand physical hardship, strain, or exposurepioneer women who had been hardened by years of living on the plains fortified, indurated, inured, seasoned, steeled, strengthened, toughened acclimated, acclimatized, adapted, adjustedannealed, temperedinvigorated, vitalizedimmunizedbolstered, boosted, braced, buttressed, enforced, forearmed, propped (up), reinforced(also reenforced), supportedbroke in, limbered (up), trainedaccustomed, conditioned, habituated, naturalized softened emasculated, enervated, enfeebled, exhausted, sapped, weakenedcrippled, debilitated, hamstrung, incapacitatedsensitized to increase the ability of (as a muscle) to exert physical forcearm muscles that were hardened by all the years of casting and hauling his fishing nets beefed (up), fortified, strengthened, toughened annealed, temperedfirmed (up), toned (up)energized, invigorated, vitalizedrestrengthened debilitated, enervated, enfeebled, weakened crippled, incapacitated, paralyzeddamaged, harmed, hurt, impaired, injuredbroke down, wore outsapped, undercut, undermined to make more harsh, uncompromising, or severethe government hardened restrictions on travel to and from the war-torn nation harshened, stiffened, strengthened, toughened ameliorated, eased lessened, moderated, softened |