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HARDEN
inure, harden, indurate
(verb) cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate; “He was inured to the cold”
season, harden
(verb) make fit; “This trip will season even the hardiest traveller”
temper, harden
(verb) harden by reheating and cooling in oil; “temper steel”
harden, indurate
(verb) become hard or harder; “The wax hardened”
harden, indurate
(verb) make hard or harder; “The cold hardened the butter”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Proper noun
Harden (plural Hardens)
A surname.
Statistics
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Harden is the 1322nd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 26617 individuals. Harden is most common among White (58.38%) and Black/African American (35.87%) individuals.
Anagrams
• Harned, Hendra, hander
Etymology 1
Verb
harden (third-person singular simple present hardens, present participle hardening, simple past and past participle hardened)
(intransitive) To become hard (tough, resistant to pressure).
(transitive, ergative) To make something hard or harder (tough, resistant to pressure).
(transitive, figurative) To strengthen.
(transitive, computing) To modify (a website or other system) to make it resistant to malicious attacks.
(ambitransitive, dated) To become or make (a person or thing) resistant or less sensitive.
Synonym: inure
(ambitransitive, phonology) To become or make (a consonant) more fortis.
Etymology 2
Noun
harden (countable and uncountable, plural hardens)
Alternative form of hurden (“coarse linen”)
Anagrams
• Harned, Hendra, hander
Source: Wiktionary
Hard"en, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hardened; p. pr. & vb. n. Hardening.] Etym: [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.
Hard"en, v. i.
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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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