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abgehärtet — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • hardened adj Made physically hard or tough, often through a deliberate process.
  • hardy adj Able to endure difficult conditions, fatigue, or hardship; tough and resilient.

Senses

abgehärtet is used for these senses in English:

  • hardened Unfeeling; pitiless; callous.
  • hardy Having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships.

hardened — full definition

  1. adj Made physically hard or tough, often through a deliberate process.
  2. adj Used to describe someone who has become numb to something unpleasant through repeated exposure, especially a habitual criminal or a person shaped by tough experience.

hardy — full definition

  1. adj Able to endure difficult conditions, fatigue, or hardship; tough and resilient.
  2. adj Of a plant, able to survive cold or harsh growing conditions, especially frost.
  3. adj Brave and bold.

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