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(adj) set
converted to solid form (as concrete)
(adj) case-hardened, hard-boiled
used of persons; emotionally hardened
faced a case-hardened judge
(adj) tempered, toughened, treated
made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment
a sword of tempered steel; tempered glass
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