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Meaning of 'harden' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Harden [ v. i.]
- To become hard or harder; to acquire solidity, or more compactness; as, mortar hardens by drying.
- To become confirmed or strengthened, in either a good or a bad sense.
2 . Harden [ v. t.]
- To make hard or harder; to make firm or compact; to indurate; as, to harden clay or iron.
- 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.

Meaning of 'harden' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . harden [ v]
Meaning (1):
- make fit
Example in sentence:
  • fit a dress;
  • He fitted other pieces of paper to his cut-out;
  • This trip will season even the hardiest traveller
Meaning (2):
- cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate
Example in sentence:
  • He was inured to the cold
Meaning (3):
- harden by reheating and cooling in oil
Example in sentence:
  • temper steel
Meaning (4):
- make hard or harder
Example in sentence:
  • The cold hardened the butter
Meaning (5):
- become hard or harder
Example in sentence:
  • The wax hardened

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