hardened

(verb) become hard or harder. Synonyms: harden, indurate. Example: "The wax hardened."

(verb) make hard or harder. Synonyms: harden, indurate. Example: "The cold hardened the butter."

(verb) harden by reheating and cooling in oil. Synonyms: temper, harden. Example: "Temper steel."

(verb) make fit. Synonyms: season, harden. Example: "This trip will season even the hardiest traveller."

(verb) cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate. Synonyms: inure, harden, indurate. Example: "He was inured to the cold."

(adj) used of persons; emotionally hardened. Synonyms: case-hardened, hard-boiled. Example: "Faced a case-hardened judge."

(adj) made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment. Synonyms: tempered (vs. untempered), treated, toughened. Examples: "A sword of tempered steel." "Tempered glass."

(adj) protected against attack (especially by nuclear weapons). Synonyms: hardened (vs. soft). Example: "Hardened missile silos."

(adj) made tough by habitual exposure. Synonyms: enured, inured. Examples: "Hardened fishermen." "A peasant, dark, lean-faced, wind-inured"- robert lynd." "Our successors...may be graver, more inured and equable men"- v.s.pritchett."

(adj) converted to solid form (as concrete). Synonyms: set.