made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment; a sword of tempered steel; tempered glass

[ Syn: tempered , treated , toughened ]

protected against attack (especially by nuclear weapons); hardened missile silos'

used of persons; emotionally hardened; faced a case-hardened judge

[ Syn: case-hardened , hard-boiled ]

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 ]

converted to solid form (as concrete)

[ Syn: set ]