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The answer HARDENED has 18 possible clue(s) in existing crosswords.
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Definitions of hardened in various dictionaries:
verb - become hard or harder
verb - make hard or harder
verb - harden by reheating and cooling in oil
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| made tough by habitual exposure |
| used to describe someone who has had a lot of bad experiences and as a result no longer gets upset or shocked: |
| no longer likely to change a bad way of life or feel sorry about it: |
| to develop a way of dealing with a sad situation so that it no longer upsets you: |
| having developed a way of dealing with bad experiences so that they no longer upset you : |
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Hardening means making a material, particularly a metal, physically harder, and includes particular cases such as:* Hardening (metallurgy), the strengthening of metal alloys by heat treatment * Case hardening, the process of hardening the surface of a metal by infusing elements into the material's surface forming a thin layer of a harder alloy * Case hardening of rocks * Case hardening (woodworking) * Air-hardening steel * Cryogenic hardening * Differential hardening * Diffusion hardening * Fire hardening * Induction hardening * Laser hardening * Precipitation hardening * Quenching * Shock hardening * Work hardening, also called strain hardening or cold working * Strain hardening exponent, a materials constant used in calculations regarding work hardeningIt also has the metaphorical meaning of making something more resistant to some threat: * * Hardening (botany) or cold hardening, the process by which a plant survives freezing temperatures * Hardening (computing), the process of securing a system * Intellectual property |