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Definition of Harden

1. Verb. Become hard or harder. "The wax hardened"

2. Verb. Make hard or harder. "The cold hardened the butter"

3. Verb. Harden by reheating and cooling in oil. "Temper steel"

4. Verb. Make fit. "This trip will season even the hardiest traveller"

5. Verb. Cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate. "He was inured to the cold"

Definition of Harden

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

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

Definition of Harden

1. Verb. (intransitive) To become hard. ¹

2. Verb. (transitive ergative) To make something hard(er). ¹

3. Verb. (transitive dated) To become or make a person or thing resistant or less sensitive. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Harden

1. to make hard [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: hard

Medical Definition of Harden

1. 1. To make hard or harder; to make firm or compact; to indurate; as, to harden clay or iron. 2. To accustom by labour 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." "I would harden myself in sorrow." (Job vi. 10) Origin: OE. Hardnen, hardenen. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Harden

hardcores hardcourt hardcourts hardcover hardcovered hardcovers harddisk harddrive hardedge hardedges

hardel hardels harden (current term) harden someone's heart hardenabilities hardenability hardenable hardened hardened pelvis hardener

hardeners hardenest hardeneth hardening hardening of the arteries hardenings hardens

Literary usage of Harden

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Vitamins by Henry Clapp Sherman, Sybil Laura Smith (1922)
"harden, A. 1921. Vitamins and the food supply. J. Soc. Chem. 1nd. ... harden, A. and Zilva, SS 1918C. Accessory factors in the nutrition of the rat. ..."

2. The State Records of North Carolina by North Carolina, Walter Clark, William Laurence Saunders, Stephen Beauregard Weeks (1910)
"harden, Capt., 1O. 895. members of S. Com. from company of, 10. 423. harden, Col., 19. 941. ... harden, Benjamin, on Tryon SC, 1O. 120, 162, 247, 423. ..."

3. The Leisure Hour edited by William Haig Miller, James Macaulay, William Stevens (1894)
"To her brother only did Miss harden address no word in the course of this visit, ... After this there was a long silence, broken again by Miss harden. ..."

4. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1919)
"The facts proven in this case are that the respondent wns employed to represent a man by the name of harden, who was confined In the jail of McDowell county ..."

5. Poems of Places by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1876)
"harden Castle. harden CASTLE. ... the dark-green corn, Towers wood-girt harden, far above the vale, And clouds of ravens o'er the turrets sail. ..."

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