hard‧ened <span class="searchmatch">hardened</span> simple past and past participle of <span class="searchmatch">harden</span> <span class="searchmatch">hardened</span> steel <span class="searchmatch">hardened</span> (comparative more <span class="searchmatch">hardened</span>, superlative most <span class="searchmatch">hardened</span>) Having been...
casehardened and case <span class="searchmatch">hardened</span> case-<span class="searchmatch">hardened</span> (metallurgy) Of metal: harder at its surface, due to a case <span class="searchmatch">hardening</span> process. <span class="searchmatch">Hardened</span> by experience. 1964...
and case-<span class="searchmatch">hardened</span> case-<span class="searchmatch">hardened</span> case <span class="searchmatch">hardened</span> simple past and past participle of case <span class="searchmatch">harden</span> case <span class="searchmatch">hardened</span> (comparative more case <span class="searchmatch">hardened</span>, superlative...
(third-person singular simple present <span class="searchmatch">hardens</span>, present participle <span class="searchmatch">hardening</span>, simple past and past participle <span class="searchmatch">hardened</span>) (intransitive) To become hard. (transitive...
From <span class="searchmatch">harden</span> + -able. <span class="searchmatch">hardenable</span> (comparative more <span class="searchmatch">hardenable</span>, superlative most <span class="searchmatch">hardenable</span>) Capable of being <span class="searchmatch">hardened</span>. a <span class="searchmatch">hardenable</span> alloy nonhardenable...
<span class="searchmatch">hardening</span> present participle and gerund of <span class="searchmatch">harden</span> <span class="searchmatch">hardening</span> (plural <span class="searchmatch">hardenings</span>) The process by which something <span class="searchmatch">hardens</span>. Something which <span class="searchmatch">hardens</span>. (Can...
<span class="searchmatch">hardened</span> his heart. She <span class="searchmatch">hardened</span> her heart against his inevitable pleas. 1611, Authorized King James translation of Exodus 7:3–4: And I will <span class="searchmatch">harden</span> Pharaoh's...
case <span class="searchmatch">harden</span> (third-person singular simple present case <span class="searchmatch">hardens</span>, present participle case <span class="searchmatch">hardening</span>, simple past and past participle case <span class="searchmatch">hardened</span>) (metallurgy)...
<span class="searchmatch">hardened</span> up simple past and past participle of <span class="searchmatch">harden</span> up...
battle-<span class="searchmatch">hardened</span> (comparative more battle-<span class="searchmatch">hardened</span>, superlative most battle-<span class="searchmatch">hardened</span>) (literally and figurative) Unfeeling or lacking emotion due to experience...