- 1. v. t. To make hard or harder; to make firm or compact; to indurate; as, to harden clay or iron. Source: opted
- 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. Source: opted
- 3. v. i. To become hard or harder; to acquire solidity, or more compactness; as, mortar hardens by drying. Source: opted
- 4. v. i. To become confirmed or strengthened, in either a good or a bad sense. Source: opted
- 5. v. become hard or harder Source: wordnet
- 6. v. make hard or harder Source: wordnet
- 7. v. harden by reheating and cooling in oil Source: wordnet
- 8. v. make healthy Source: wordnet
- 9. v. cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate Source: wordnet
- 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. Source: webster
- 11. v:100 v. become hard or harder v. make hard or harder Source: ecdict
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