how to pronounce hardened

/ˈhɑːɹdənd/

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hardened is pronounced in two syllables

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An example use of hardened in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… liquid and flowing now hardened and …”

meanings of hardened

adjective:

Firmly established or unlikely to change; inveterate.
Having extra defences against attack; highly fortified.
Unfeeling or lacking emotion due to experience; callous.

verb:

Simple past tense and past participle of harden.

hardened frequency in english - C2 level of CEFR

the word hardened occurs in english on average 3.6 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics hardened can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that hardened can be often used in the following areas:

1) communication, information, and media;