[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

harden \hard"en\ haumrd"'n, v. t. imp.  p. p. hardened
   -'nd; p. pr.  vb. n. hardening -'ni^ng. oe.
   hardnen, hardenen.
   1. to make hard or harder; to make firm or compact; to
      indurate; as, to harden clay or iron.
      1913 webster

   2. to accustom by labor or suffering to endure with
      constancy; to strengthen; to stiffen; to inure; also, to
      confirm in wickedness or shame; to make unimpressionable.
      "harden not your heart." --ps. xcv. 8.
      1913 webster

            i would harden myself in sorrow.      --job vi. 10.
      1913 webster
see also:
hardened hardening 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

hardened \hard"ened\ -'nd, a.
   1. made hard, or harder, or compact; made unfeeling or
      callous; made obstinate or obdurate; confirmed in error or
      vice.

   2. rendered resistant to the effects of nearby explosions;
      as, a hardened missile silo; hardened warhead electronics.
      pjc

   3. experienced and inured to hardship; as, hardened combat
      troops.
      pjc

   4. strongly habituated to a certain type of behavior, and
      unlikely to change; as, a hardened criminal. usually used
      only of behavior perceived negatively.
      pjc

   syn: impenetrable; hard; obdurate; callous; unfeeling;
        unsusceptible; insensible. see obdurate.
        1913 webster
see also:
obdurate 

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

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
see also:
case-hardened hard-boiled tempered treated toughened untempered 
enured inured set 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

91 moby thesaurus words for "hardened":
   philistine, acclimated, acclimatized, accommodated, accustomed,
   adapted, adjusted, annealed, backed, brazen, calcified, callous,
   calloused, case-hardened, cold, cold of heart, coldblooded,
   coldhearted, conditioned, conscienceless, crusted, crusty,
   crystallized, experienced, familiarized, flinthearted, flinty,
   fossilized, granulated, hard, hard of heart, hard-boiled,
   hardhearted, heartless, hornified, impenitent, impervious,
   incrusted, indurate, indurated, insensitive, insolent, inured,
   lapidified, lost to shame, naturalized, obdurate, orientated,
   oriented, ossified, pachydermatous, petrified, proof against,
   reinforced, rigidified, run-in, sclerotic, seared, seasoned, set,
   shameless, solidified, steeled, steeled against, steely, stiffened,
   stony, stonyhearted, strengthened, tempered, thick-skinned,
   toughened, trained, unabject, unblushing, uncompassionate,
   uncontrite, unemotional, unfeeling, unmelted, unmerciful,
   unnatural, unrepentant, unrepenting, unresponsive, unsoftened,
   untouched, used to, vitrified, wont, wonted

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Hardened-PHP Project - PHP Security - Home
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http://www.hardened-php.net/, score=100, date indexed=December 30, 2005, 3:35 am

Hardened Debian :: start
...Hardened Debian and it‘s daugther-project, Ubuntu Hardened, aim ... debian-hardened and #ubuntu-hardened in both OFTC and FreeNode. Old ... ..
http://www.debian-hardened.org/, score=91, date indexed=December 30, 2005, 3:14 am

Gentoo Linux Projects -- Hardened Gentoo
...Introduction to Hardened Gentoo * Hardened Frequently Asked Questions ... Hardened Roadmap * Using Xorg with Hardened * A quickstart covering ... ..
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/hardened/, score=86, date indexed=November 4, 2005, 3:36 pm

SourceForge.net: Hardened Debian
...About Hardened Debian.    Hardened Debian/Debian Hardened is a project ... 2.6.7-hardened RC1 out!   2004-11-22. *Hardened Glibc-2.3.3-dh-pre1 & ... ..
http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/debianhardened, score=61, date indexed=January 28, 2006, 7:50 am

Hardened Leather
...Waxing leather that could be adequately hardened without it might have ... In making things such as knees and elbows out of hardened leather, one ... ..
http://www.personal.utulsa.edu/~marc-carlson/leather/hl.html, score=44, date indexed=January 20, 2006, 8:55 am

Though battle-hardened, Iraq's Kurdish militia struggles for role | csmonitor....
...Though battle-hardened, Iraq's Kurdish militia struggles for role. A ... the battle- hardened Kurdish militia? Under an agreement hammered out ... ..
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0302/p05s01-woiq.html, score=42, date indexed=January 27, 2006, 1:35 am

Cariadoc's Miscellany: The Perfect Armor
...... with hardened leather on one side and thick hardened leather lamellae ... holding long pieces of hardened leather. My gorget is hardened leather ... ..
http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/cariadoc/perfect_armor.html, score=34, date indexed=January 20, 2006, 7:21 am

ubuntu-hardened Info Page
...Subscribing to ubuntu-hardened Subscribe to ubuntu-hardened by filling ... ubuntu-hardened -- Ubuntu Linux Proactive Security deployment and ... ..
http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-hardened, score=33, date indexed=December 19, 2005, 2:47 pm

Gentoo Linux Documentation --
...emerge sys-devel/hardened-gcc. While hardened-gcc. serves as an ... Last but not least the hardened-gcc specs file itself can be modified ... ..
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/hardened/etdyn-ssp.xml, score=30, date indexed=November 18, 2005, 12:36 pm

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