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Harden Definition And Meaning
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.

Harden Definition And Meaning

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

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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