hardened

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During their time in jail, their skills get soft or they'll get hardened by their time there.

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Quick take

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

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of hardened gathered in one view.

adjective

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

adjective

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

adjective

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

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for hardened.

adjective

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

adjective

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

adjective

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

adjective

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

adjective

converted to solid form (as concrete)

Example sentences

During their time in jail, their skills get soft or they'll get hardened by their time there.

If he's smart, he's going to say: we'll take jQuery, as it provides a nice, stable, robust and battle-hardened API.

But if you aren't a specialist, it is pure hubris to think that you write code that is hardened against all of the attacks out there.

Better to deploy a hardened static page now than be infected with malware running massive botnets when they get back.

2. scared the Russians into not trusting the now hardened algorithm and instead relying on older systems that they had attacks against.

A "hardened" framework is going to make parameter whitelisting the default behavior, even if it's a little less convenient.

Such a thing could be hardened I'm sure, but the amount of bookkeeping required is a bit terrifying, and experience suggests that will not go entirely smoothly or be easy to find bugs in.

What they didn't count on was the fact that there are people living on the edge who rack up a number of felony convictions for relatively minor things even though they're not the kind of hardened criminal legislators were thinking about.

Welcome to America, where we read your private mail, track all your movements online, shoot your dogs, abuse you at the borders, put antibiotics in your food, bankrupt you when you get sick, throw you in jail with hardened criminals if you smoke a spliff, and drone-execute you with no warrant if the president doesn't like you.