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Grammar : Adj |
Spell : hahr-dnd |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈhɑr dnd |
Definition of hardened
Origin :- c.1200 (replacing Old English heardian) "to make (something) hard," from hard + -en (1). Meaning "to become hard" is late 14c. Related: Hardened (figurative sense of "unfeeling" is from late 14c.); hardening.
- adj unfeeling
- Physically he had undoubtedly improved; his legs had hardened and smoothed down.
- Extract from : « Thoroughbreds » by W. A. Fraser
- The law represented the best that could be done with hardened hearts.
- Extract from : « Understanding the Scriptures » by Francis McConnell
- But Sapphira was "hardened through the deceitfulness of sin."
- Extract from : « Female Scripture Biographies, Vol. II » by Francis Augustus Cox
- I am hardened now, I have sunk too low to care long even for that.'
- Extract from : « Little Dorrit » by Charles Dickens
- He was hardened, steeped in guilt, and callous as to the sufferings of others.
- Extract from : « Henry Dunbar » by M. E. Braddon
- I want to see what he was when he was bright and young before the world had hardened him.
- Extract from : « Henry Dunbar » by M. E. Braddon
- Justice, however, remained to be done on the hardened and impenitent.
- Extract from : « Bunyan » by James Anthony Froude
- To bear hunger and cold they are hardened by their climate and soil.
- Extract from : « Tacitus on Germany » by Tacitus
- She looked at him with an almost sharp intensity which hardened her whole face.
- Extract from : « A Spirit in Prison » by Robert Hichens
- She had not yet wept; her face was livid, contracted, hardened by cold rage.
- Extract from : « Fruitfulness » by Emile Zola
Synonyms for hardened
- accustomed
- benumbed
- callous
- case-hardened
- coldhearted
- contemptuous
- cruel
- disdainful
- habituated
- hard-as-nails
- hard-bitten
- hard-boiled
- hardhearted
- heartless
- impenetrable
- impious
- inaccessible
- indurated
- inured
- irreverent
- obdurate
- obtuse
- prepared
- resistant
- seasoned
- steeled
- toughened
- unashamed
- unbending
- uncaring
- uncompassionate
- unemotional
- unrepenting
- unsubmissive
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