About The Word Harden
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Harden
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What's The Definition Of Harden?
[v] cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate; "He was inured to the cold"
[v] make fit; "This trip will season even the hardiest traveller" [v] harden by reheating and cooling in oil; "temper steel" [v] become hard or harder; "The wax hardened" [v] make hard or harder; "The cold hardened the butter" Synonyms | Synonyms for Harden: indurate | inure | season | temper Related Terms | Find terms related to Harden: acclimate | acclimatize | accommodate | accustom | adapt | adjust | anneal | be tough | beef up | brace | brace up | break | break in | brutalize | buttress | cake | calcify | callous | case harden | caseharden | compact | concrete | condition | confirm | conform | congeal | consolidate | cornify | crystallize | densify | domesticate | domesticize | dry | endure | establish | familiarize | firm | fix | fortify | fossilize | freeze | gentle | gird | habituate | hang tough | housebreak | indurate | intensify | inure | invigorate | lapidify | lithify | naturalize | nerve | orient | orientate | ossify | petrify | prop | refresh | reinforce | reinvigorate | restrengthen | season | set | shore up | solidify | steel | stiffen | strengthen | support | sustain | tame | temper | toughen | train | turn to stone | undergird | vitrify | wont See Also | accustom | brace oneself for | calcify | callous | callus | cauterise | cauterize | change | encrust | face-harden | habituate | incrust | modify | prepare for | steel oneself against | steel onself for | toughen Harden In Webster's Dictionary \Hard"en\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Hardened}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Hardening}.] [OE. hardnen, hardenen.]
1. To make hard or harder; to make firm or compact; to
indurate; as, to harden clay or iron.
2. To accustom by labor or suffering to endure with
constancy; to strengthen; to stiffen; to inure; also, to
confirm in wickedness or shame; to make unimpressionable.
``Harden not your heart.'' --Ps. xcv. 8.
I would harden myself in sorrow. --Job vi. 10.
\Hard"en\, v. i. 1. To become hard or harder; to acquire solidity, or more compactness; as, mortar hardens by drying. The deliberate judgment of those who knew him [A. Lincoln] has hardened into tradition. --The Century. 2. To become confirmed or strengthened, in either a good or a bad sense. They, hardened more by what might most reclaim. --Milton. |
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