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work-hardened

work-hardened is the simple past and past participle of work-harden.

Meaning of work-harden

Verb

work-harden (third-person singular simple present work-hardens, present participle work-hardening, simple past and past participle work-hardened)

  1. (transitive) To harden (a material) by work hardening.

Questions about work-hardened

What is work-hardened the simple past and past participle of?
Work-hardened is the simple past and past participle of work-harden.

Words near work-hardened in the dictionary

  1. work-athon
  2. work-athons
  3. work-brittle
  4. work-camp
  5. work-harden
  6. work-hardened
  7. work-in
  8. work-in-process
  9. work-in-progress
  10. work-ins
  11. work-intensive

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Adapted from Wiktionary: work-hardened (page history and authors); work-harden (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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