Thesaurus: harden

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1. v. t. To make hard or harder; to make firm or compact; to indurate; as, to harden clay or iron.
2. 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.
3. v. i. To become hard or harder; to acquire solidity, or more compactness; as, mortar hardens by drying.
4. v. i. To become confirmed or strengthened, in either a good or a bad sense.
5. v. become hard or harder
6. v. make hard or harder
7. v. harden by reheating and cooling in oil
8. v. make healthy
9. v. cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate
10. 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. Job vi. 10. 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. The Century. 2. To become confirmed or strengthened, in either a good or a bad sense. They, hardened more by what might most reclaim. Milton.
11. v:100 v. become hard or harder v. make hard or harder