'Harden' definitions:

Definition of 'harden'

From: WordNet
verb
Become hard or harder; "The wax hardened" [syn: harden, indurate] [ant: soften]
verb
Make hard or harder; "The cold hardened the butter" [syn: harden, indurate] [ant: soften]
verb
Harden by reheating and cooling in oil; "temper steel" [syn: temper, harden]
verb
Make fit; "This trip will season even the hardiest traveller" [syn: season, harden]
verb
Cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate; "He was inured to the cold" [syn: inure, harden, indurate]

Definition of 'Harden'

From: GCIDE
  • Harden \Hard"en\ (h[aum]rd"'n), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hardened (-'nd); p. pr. & vb. n. Hardening (-'n*[i^]ng).] [OE. hardnen, hardenen.]
  • 1. To make hard or harder; to make firm or compact; to indurate; as, to harden clay or iron. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • I would harden myself in sorrow. --Job vi. 10. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Harden'

From: GCIDE
  • Harden \Hard"en\, v. i.
  • 1. To become hard or harder; to acquire solidity, or more compactness; as, mortar hardens by drying. [1913 Webster]
  • The deliberate judgment of those who knew him [A. Lincoln] has hardened into tradition. --The Century. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To become confirmed or strengthened, in either a good or a bad sense. [1913 Webster]
  • They, hardened more by what might most reclaim. --Milton. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'harden'

From: GCIDE
  • Hurden \Hur"den\, n. [From Hurds.] A coarse kind of linen; -- called also harden. [Prov. Eng.] [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'harden'

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