Definitions of harden [ˈhɑr dn]

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Definition of 'harden'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (v.t.) harden
to make hard or harder.

2.  harden
to make pitiless or unfeeling:
to harden one's heart.

3.  harden
to make rigid, hardy, or unyielding; reinforce; toughen.

4.  harden
to reinforce (a military or strategic installation) as protection against nuclear bombardment.

5. (v.i.) harden
to become hard or harder.

6.  harden
to become pitiless or unfeeling.

7.  harden
to become inured or unyielding.

Etymology: (1150–1200)

Definition of 'harden'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (verb) harden, indurate
become hard or harder
"The wax hardened"

2. (verb) harden, indurate
make hard or harder
"The cold hardened the butter"

3. (verb) temper, harden
harden by reheating and cooling in oil
"temper steel"

4. (verb) season, harden
make fit
"This trip will season even the hardiest traveller"

5. (verb) inure, harden, indurate
cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate
"He was inured to the cold"

Definition of 'harden'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (verb) harden
to become or make hard
The mud hardened and cracked.

2. harden
to become or make less affected by your emotions
a woman hardened by years in prison

Definition of 'harden'

Webster Dictionary

1. (verb) harden
to make hard or harder; to make firm or compact; to indurate; as, to harden clay or iron

2. (verb) harden
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. (verb) harden
to become hard or harder; to acquire solidity, or more compactness; as, mortar hardens by drying

4. (verb) harden
to become confirmed or strengthened, in either a good or a bad sense

Translation of 'harden'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: to make or become hard Don't touch the toffee till it hardens; Try not to harden your heart against him.
Afrikaans: verhard, hard maak	Arabic: يَصْلَبُّ، يُصْبِحُ جامِد	Bulgarian: втвърдявам
Brazilian: endurecer	Czech: tvrdnout; zatvrdit	German: erhärten
Danish: blive hård	Greek: σκληραίνω	Spanish: endurecer(se)
Estonian: kõvaks minema, kõvaks teg	Farsi: سفت شدن	Finnish: kovettua
French: (en)durcir	Hebrew: לְהִתקַשוֹת, לְהַקשוֹת	Hindi: सख्त करना
Croatian: otvrdnuti, okorjeti	Hungarian: (meg)keményít	Indonesian: mengeras(kan)
Icelandic: harðna; herða	Italian: indurire, diventare insen	Japanese: 堅くする
Korean: 단단하게 하다	Lithuanian: sukietėti, sukietinti	Latvian: sacietēt; nocietināt (sir
Malay: mengeraskan	Dutch: (ver)harden	Norwegian: gjøre/bli hard, herde
Polish: stwardnieć, utwardzać	Persian: سفت شدن	Pashto: كلكول، سختول لكېدل ، سختې
Portuguese: endurecer	Romanian: a (se)întări	Russian: затвердевать; ожесточатьс
Slovak: tvrdnúť; zatvrdiť sa	Slovenian: strditi (se), utrditi	Serbian: stvrdnuti
Swedish: hårdna, förhärda [sig]	Thai: ทำให้แข็ง; ทำให้ใจแข็ง	Turkish: sertleş(tir)mek
Taiwanese: (使)變硬	Ukrainian: ставати твердим, тверднут	Urdu: سخت ہو جانا یا کرنا
Vietnamese: trở nên cứng rắn, mạnh mẽ	Chinese: 使变硬
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