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hardened
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adjective
(= case-hardened)
used of persons; emotionally hardened
faced a case-hardened judge
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adjective
converted to solid form (as concrete)
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adjective
protected against attack (especially by nuclear weapons)
hardened missile silos
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adjective
(= inured)
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
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adjective
(= tempered)
made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment
a sword of tempered steel
tempered glass
pelvis
Noun
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The pelvis is a group of bones around the lower torso that form the hip.
Older people often fall and break their pelvis.