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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

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