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HARDEN
inure, harden, indurate
(verb) cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate; āHe was inured to the coldā
season, harden
(verb) make fit; āThis trip will season even the hardiest travellerā
temper, harden
(verb) harden by reheating and cooling in oil; ātemper steelā
harden, indurate
(verb) become hard or harder; āThe wax hardenedā
harden, indurate
(verb) make hard or harder; āThe cold hardened the butterā
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 (ācoarse linenā)
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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(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., āthe father of the brideā instead of āthe brideās fatherā
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