 5 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
harden
verb
1: become hard or harder; "The wax hardened" [syn: {indurate}]
[ant: {soften}]
2: make hard or harder; "The cold hardened the butter" [syn: {indurate}]
[ant: {soften}]
3: harden by reheating and cooling in oil; "temper steel" [syn:
{temper}]
4: make fit; "This trip will season even the hardiest
traveller" [syn: {season}]
5: cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate; "He was
inured to the cold" [syn: {inure}, {indurate}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Harden \Hard"en\ (h[aum]rd"'n), verb (used with an object) [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.
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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Harden \Hard"en\, verb (used without an object)
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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Hurden \Hur"den\, noun [From {Hurds}.]
A coarse kind of linen; -- called also {harden}. [Prov. Eng.]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
80 Moby Thesaurus words for "harden":
acclimate, acclimatize, accommodate, accustom, adapt, adjust,
anneal, be tough, beef up, brace, brace up, break, break in,
brutalize, buttress, cake, calcify, callous, case harden,
caseharden, compact, concrete, condition, confirm, conform,
congeal, consolidate, cornify, crystallize, densify, domesticate,
domesticize, dry, endure, establish, familiarize, firm, fix,
fortify, fossilize, freeze, gentle, gird, habituate, hang tough,
housebreak, indurate, intensify, inure, invigorate, lapidify,
lithify, naturalize, nerve, orient, orientate, ossify, petrify,
prop, refresh, reinforce, reinvigorate, restrengthen, season, set,
shore up, solidify, steel, stiffen, strengthen, support, sustain,
tame, temper, toughen, train, turn to stone, undergird, vitrify,
wont
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