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Meaning harden meaning

What does harden mean?
Definitions in simple English

harden Verb

— If you harden something, then you make it hard, stiff, or make it more resistant.

harden

— verb become hard or harder The wax hardened — verb make hard or harder The cold hardened the butter — verb (= season) make fit This trip will season even the hardiest traveller — verb (= inure) cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate He was inured to the cold — verb (= temper) harden by reheating and cooling in oil temper steel

Synonyms harden synonyms

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harden English » English

become hard temper toughen solidify petrify indurate stiffen strengthen season set tighten inure congeal coarsen turn to stone steel firm fortify consolidate concrete cake thicken sclerosis roughen preserve petrified ossify make hard hard gel freeze fossilize firm up dry dehydrate cure condense clot chap callous become rough vulcanization turn into stone toughen up torture tie tense strength solid soak

Topics harden topics

What do people use harden to talk about?
States Quality Made of, material

Hard, firm
Universe, creation World

Solid, liquid, gas
States Quality Hot

Cold

Conjugation harden conjugation

How do you conjugate harden?

harden · verb

Examples harden examples

How do I use harden in a sentence?

Simple sentences

And so the method that works is treading down the snow to harden it, making blocks and piling them up.

Movie subtitles

I add a lot of sugar to the wine. I let my bread harden for several days.
Pour the molten lead into the mold, allow it to harden.
We harden our hearts and grow callous.
Harden yourself against subordinates.
Or harden it?
Does a Pharaoh harden his heart against his son?
I understand your anguish, my son, but you must not let it harden your heart.
We'll harden ourselves.
Do you harden your heart and never give in to temptation by woman, man or your own body?
Then it began to seethe, boil and harden.
To do this, we had to harden our hearts against the suffering outside.
Life isn't easy. And it is important that you harden yourselves to face it.
Swords are harden through fire, not words, your holiness.
Greff wants to harden his body.
However, if the facts are there even the most harden skeptic, provided he has an open mind, must finally acknowledge the actual existence of the supernatural.
All of us. a little bit. We harden our hearts and grow callous.
Come dear, before those two in the cement harden.
Give the mould about three minutes to harden.
I never tried to duplicate a stone this size before, and I want the mould to harden perfectly.
I end up eating bananas, listening to my arteries harden.
And it is important that you harden yourselves to face it.
My breasts harden and ache.
Later, the blood is drawn back into the body and the gauzy wings slowly dry and harden.
This way it won't harden.
And, of course, to cause the mars penis to erect and harden.
Their slime trails harden like concrete, only far faster.
So, harden it.
Cycling is delicious, your body unfolds, your thighs harden, and your sex, impregnable, hugs the saddle prosthesis, which reacts to each surprise of the ground.
The arteries harden, vascular occlusion, thrombosis, fatigue.
Learn to harden the fiber in your eye now.
But bubbling beneath the surface. and rising slowly through the layers of indifference. has come a new system. harden up, reject romanticism. abandon rhetoric.
Harden it!

News and current affairs

If the perception of further US hostility toward Latin America persists, the tilt toward an irresponsible, demagogic left will harden.
Will his flight to the US embassy harden the attitudes of China's leaders?
Worse, the north-south, core-periphery divide will harden, with taxpayer-backed banks on one side and banks that must fend for themselves on the other.
Russia's position is also likely to harden as well.
That would mean bombing Damascus, which could harden Syrian support for Assad.
If all this leads people to conclude that social justice is being sacrificed to profits, cuts in public expenditure harden that conclusion even more.
The conventional wisdom is, however, wrong; worse, it is dangerous, for we have all seen how quickly it can take hold, distort reality, and then harden like cement.
With two competing, yet simultaneously valid narratives, ideological extremes harden.
The war in Gaza will harden this negative trend.
To do so would not only destroy the anti-terrorist coalition, but harden anti-American sentiments everywhere, including within Russia.

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