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hardened

 adjective
     
hard‧ened
1

hardened criminal/police officer etc

a criminal, police officer etc who has had a lot of experience of things that are shocking and is therefore less affected by them
2

become hardened (to something)

to become used to something shocking because you have seen it many times
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