hardened
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Sense: Made hard
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Sense: Inured to labor or hardship
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inured, steeled, toughened
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Sense: Confirmed, especially in error or vice
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callous Collocations, inveterate, obdurate, unrepenting, unyielding, bad Collocations, shameless, irreclaimable, lost Collocations, incorrigible, irredeemable, degenerate, tough Collocations, reprobate, insensible, chronic, hard Collocations, unashamed, uncaring, hardhearted, untouched, implacable, cold Collocations, unrelenting, unbending, hard as nails, hard-boiled, cruel Collocations
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yielding, unresistant, susceptible Collocations, vulnerable Collocations, sensitive Collocations, flexible Collocations, agreeable Collocations
harden
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Sense: To make less pervious
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steel Collocations, temper Collocations, anneal, solidify, make callous, make firm, make compact, make tight, make hard, congeal, ossify, petrify, cure Collocations, bake Collocations, compact, fire Collocations, toughen, compress, stiffen, thicken
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Sense: To become less penetrable
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solidify, congeal, jell, become dense, petrify, ossify, freeze over, set Collocations, firm Collocations, contract Collocations, freeze Collocations, stiffen, thicken
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Sense: To toughen
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acclimate, acclimatize, habituate, inure, season Collocations, make callous, make unfeeling, embitter, brutalize, render insensitive, render insensible, render unimpressible
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