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Adjective hardened has 4 senses
- case-hardened, hardened, hard-boiled - used of persons; emotionally hardened; "faced a case-hardened judge"
Antonym: soft (indirect, via hard)
- tempered, treated, hardened, toughened - made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment; "a sword of tempered steel"; "tempered glass"
- enured, inured, hardened - 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
Antonyms: tender, untoughened (indirect, via tough)
- hardened, set - converted to solid form (as concrete)
Antonym: soft (indirect, via hard)
Verb harden has 5 senses
- harden, indurate - become hard or harder; "The wax hardened"
--1 is one way to change
Antonyms: soften
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
- harden, indurate - make hard or harder; "The cold hardened the butter"
--2 is one way to change
Antonyms: soften
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
- temper, harden - harden by reheating and cooling in oil; "temper steel"
--3 is one way to modify
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- season, harden - make fit; "This trip will season even the hardiest traveller"
--4 is one way to toughen
Sample sentence:
Something ----s somebody
- inure, harden, indurate - cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate; "He was inured to the cold"
--5 is one way to habituate, accustom
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP
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