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. Rick Brennan:

   In the short term, you have the immediate threat of ISIS. But in the long term, the deeper threat is to Iraq’s ability to be free and independent of Iran, dependence on the Shia militias, who have sworn allegiance to the ayatollah, is a problem. The Popular Liberation Forces number about 70,000, including a core of 15,000 hardened fighters who most recently did battle at Tehran’s behest in Syria, where they fought Al Qaeda, ISIS and the Free Syrian Army, Rick Brennan said. Iraq may need their help now, but giving them an official role in the fight against ISIS could further entrench them as both a political and military force within Iraq, Rick Brennan said.

2. Rahuldeb Sarkar:

   Some of these nurses are in their early twenties, it can break a hardened war veteran, so they will obviously be affected by this.

3. Jessica Vaughan:

   There's a reason why we haven't had this resolved in many years, it's because it's tough and there are great differences of opinion on it and the difference between both sides has only gotten more hardened in recent years.

4. 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.

5. Geraldo Cadava:

   Democrats have consistently tried to defend DACA recipients, whereas President Donald Trump has flip-flopped on numerous occasions, sometimes he says he supports them, while other times, when justifying his desire to rescind, he says they're' far from angels,' and some are' hardened criminals.'.