Preposition: of

• cynic: Even the most hardened of cynics would have to admit that this title is something else entirely.

Modifying Another Word

• even: THE LONG WALK June 1987 I've known even hardened republicans who have a sneaking admiration for the courage of the bomb squad.

• fully: When fully hardened sand to open up the grain and stain or paint to match.

• so: The first soil has a heart that is so hardened that it is no longer able to hear the Word at all.

• specially: The blade cuts the adhesive caulking compound around the windscreen using the specially hardened carbon steel blade.

• once: The films are at once hardened, philosophical, passionate and darkly subdued.

• industrially: The lack of industrially hardened components and connectors has exacerbated this.

Infinitive complement

• guarantee: Cutting edges are induction hardened to guarantee efficient cutting performance and great durability.

Modifies a noun

• Pharaoh: No, God hardened Pharaoh 's heart for His purposes to be fulfilled.

• skeptic: I remember examining the gospels and reading Morrison's book myself when a hardened skeptic myself, and finding this evidence compelling.

• drinker: Fancy yourself as a bit of a hardened drinker?

• steel: Fit decent 5 lever locks to your shed door or use padlocks made of hardened steel.

• lava: Na pali coast hardened lava a quarter mile away.

• bunker: How do you think they can penetrate a steel hardened bunker with a bomb unit?

Used with adjective complement

• become: Editors were becoming hardened, only a few of the best reports got any space.

• seem: Parliament was deaf; the Press, with but few exception, was callous; the public conscience seemed hardened as a nether millstone.

• remain: They had the choice to remain hardened, or to turn from their sins unto God.

• get: Hal's theory, which he practiced on others, was that one must get hardened.