Thesaurus: harden
To make hard or harder; to make firm or compact; to indurate; as, to harden clay or iron.
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Definitions
- 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.
- v. become hard or harder
- v. make hard or harder
- v. harden by reheating and cooling in oil
- v. make healthy
- v. cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate
- v:100 v. become hard or harder v. make hard or harder