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converted to solid form (as concrete) hard used of persons; emotionally hardened; "faced a case-hardened judge" hard made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment; "a sword of tempered steel"; "tempered glass" annealed, baked, curable, sunbaked 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 tough |
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