Definition of Harden in English :

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Harden meaning in English

Meaning of Harden in English

Pronunciation of Harden in English

Harden pronunciation in English

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Harden

see synonyms of harden

Verb

1. harden, indurate

become hard or harder

Example Sentences:
'The wax hardened'

2. harden, indurate

make hard or harder

Example Sentences:
'The cold hardened the butter'

3. harden, temper

harden by reheating and cooling in oil

Example Sentences:
'temper steel'

4. harden, season

make fit

Example Sentences:
'This trip will season even the hardiest traveller'

5. harden, indurate, inure

cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate

Example Sentences:
'He was inured to the cold'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Harden

see synonyms of harden
verb
1. 
to make or become hard or harder; freeze, stiffen, or set
2. 
to make or become more hardy, tough, or unfeeling
3. 
to make or become stronger or firmer
they hardened defences
4. 
to make or become more resolute or set
hardened in his resolve
5. (intransitive) business
a. 
(of prices, a market, etc) to cease to fluctuate
b. 
(of price) to rise higher
noun
a rough fabric made from hards

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Harden

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verb transitive
1. 
to make solid, rigid, or firm
2. 
to make callous
to harden one's heart
3. 
to accustom to varying or adverse conditions or climate
verb intransitive
4. 
to become solid, rigid, callous, etc.

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.


Harden

see synonyms of harden
v. hard·ened, hard·en·ing, hard·ens
v.tr.
1. To make hard or harder: harden steel.
2. To enable to withstand physical or mental hardship: was hardened by years of working as a farmer.
3. To make unfeeling, unsympathetic, or callous: The betrayal hardened his heart against intimacy.
4. To make fixed, settled, or less subject to change: "The incident only hardened existing attitudes while vanquishing any hope of collaboration" (Philip Dray).
5. To make less vulnerable to attack by surrounding with earth or concrete: harden missile silos.
v.intr.
1. To become hard or harder.
2. To become fixed, settled, or less subject to change: "Her early skepticism has hardened into cynicism" (Kelly Braffet).
3. To become inured.
4. To take on a disapproving or severe appearance: His face hardened with suspicion.
5. To rise and become stable. Used of prices.

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