hardened
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
hardened/ˈhɑːdnd/
▶adjective
- 1 having become or been made hard or harder.
- 2 experienced, tough, and cynical: hardened police officers.
■ fixed in a bad habit or way of life: hardened criminals.
'hardened' also found in these Oxford entries:
age hardening
- boater
- callosity
- calloused
- callus
- case-harden
- ceramic
- clay pipe
- cornice
- crust
- galipot
- hardpan
- hard shoulder
- hemipteran
- horn
- ivory nut
- martensite
- mudflow
- pitchstone
- sclero-
- sclerotin
- sclerotized
- snowpack
- summer squash
- wet
