Synonyms:
case-hardened, hardened, hard-boiled
Meaning: used of persons; emotionally hardened; "faced a case-hardened judge"
Usage examples
Norah flushed; but she was hardened to her mistress's manner.
Gun-flints are made with a hammer, and a chisel of steel that is not hardened.
But there were many who were so hardened that they would not look, therefore they perished.
'Keep them out of the way,' he said in a low voice; 'it will be dark when I come in.' His hardened face lit up.
And there was death on the Emperor And night upon the Pope: And Alfred, hiding in deep grass, Hardened his heart with hope.
Both the men, hardened as they were by duties which soon sap the sensibilities, started and turned as pale as the speaker himself.
The tenderly-nursed pet is affected by every change of atmosphere, and subjected to a variety of diseases unknown to the dog that has been hardened from his birth.
Pressure has hardened the marine muds, the arkose, or the volcanic ash from which slates are derived, and has caused them to cleave by the rearrangement of their particles.
For since these men do not act thus from hardened malice, but only from weakness of faith, therefore, in order to avoid giving them offence, we must keep fasts and do other things which they consider necessary.
A man of twenty-five is old enough to have made a record, Mr. Steele--" The mayor's tone hardened, so did his manner; and I saw why he had been such a power in the courts before he took up politics and an office.