harden

[hard·en]

Make hard or harder

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To make hard or harder; to make firm or compact; to indurate; as, to harden clay or iron.

Verb
cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate; "He was inured to the cold"

Verb
make fit; "This trip will season even the hardiest traveller"

Verb
harden by reheating and cooling in oil; "temper steel"

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become hard or harder; "The wax hardened"

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make hard or harder; "The cold hardened the butter"

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v. t.
To make hard or harder; to make firm or compact; to indurate; as, to harden clay or iron.

v. t.
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.

v. i.
To become hard or harder; to acquire solidity, or more compactness; as, mortar hardens by drying.

v. i.
To become confirmed or strengthened, in either a good or a bad sense.


Harden

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.

Harden

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.
2. To become confirmed or strengthened, in either a good or a bad sense.
They, hardened more by what might most reclaim.

To make hard or harder; to make firm or compact; to indurate; as, to harden clay or iron.

To become hard or harder; to acquire solidity, or more compactness; as, mortar hardens by drying.

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