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Harden (disambiguation)
harden
(hardens, hardening, hardened)
1.
When something hardens or when you harden it, it becomes stiff or firm.
Mould the mixture into shape while hot, before it hardens...
Give the cardboard two or three coats of varnish to harden it.
VERB: V, V n
2.
When an attitude or opinion hardens or is hardened, it becomes harsher, stronger, or fixed.
Their action can only serve to harden the attitude of landowners...
The bitter split which has developed within Solidarity is likely to harden further into separation.
VERB: V n, V
• hardening
...a hardening of the government's attitude towards rebellious parts of the army.
N-SING: usu N of n
3.
When prices and economies harden, they become much more stable than they were.
Property prices are just beginning to harden again.
VERB: V
4.
When events harden people or when people harden, they become less easily affected emotionally and less sympathetic and gentle than they were before.
Her years of drunken bickering hardened my heart...
All of a sudden my heart hardened against her.
VERB: V n, V against n
5.
If you say that someone's face or eyes harden, you mean that they suddenly look serious or angry.
His smile died and the look in his face hardened.
VERB: V
Harden
·vi To become confirmed or strengthened, in either a good or a bad sense.
II. Harden ·vi To become hard or harder; to acquire solidity, or more compactness; as, mortar hardens by drying.
III. Harden ·vt To make hard or harder; to make firm or compact; to Indurate; as, to harden clay or iron.
IV. Harden ·vt 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
I. v. a.
1.
Indurate, make hard, make callous.
2.
Habituate, inure, season, accustom, form, train, discipline.
3.
Strengthen, fortify, steel, nerve, brace.
4.
Sear, make callous, render insensible or unimpressible, make unfeeling.
5.
Make obdurate, confirm in wickedness.
II. v. n.
Grow or become hard, indurate.
Pronunciation examples for harden
1. It would harden.
The Science of Great Barbecue and Grilling _ Meathead Goldwyn _ Talks at Google
2. so the lungs can harden
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3. what networks to harden,
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4. AUDIENCE: Do they harden up?
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5. NELSON BOYCE: LeBron or Harden?
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Examples of use of harden
1. The testimony, though, seemed only to harden positions among lawmakers.
2. But Russia appeared to harden its opposition to sanctions yesterday.
3. External threats to the Chinese will only harden their resolve.
4. "I think that would harden Iran‘s attitude," Hans Blix said.
5. Was there a way to "harden" the Underground against bombers?