hardened (
http://definr.com/hardened)
adj 1: used of persons; emotionally hardened; "faced a
case-hardened judge" [syn:
case-hardened,
hard-boiled]
2: made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat
treatment; "a sword of tempered steel"; "tempered glass"
[syn:
tempered,
treated,
toughened] [ant:
untempered]
3: 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 [syn:
enured,
inured]
4: converted to solid form (as concrete) [syn:
set]