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Found 5 hits - Term: harden, Database: *, Strategy: exact
[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
harden \hard"en\ haumrd"'n, v. t. imp.  p. p. hardened
   -'nd; p. pr.  vb. n. hardening -'ni^ng. oe.
   hardnen, hardenen.
   1. to make hard or harder; to make firm or compact; to
      indurate; as, to harden clay or iron.
      1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster

            i would harden myself in sorrow.      --job vi. 10.
      1913 webster
see also:
hardened hardening 
[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
harden \hard"en\, v. i.
   1. to become hard or harder; to acquire solidity, or more
      compactness; as, mortar hardens by drying.
      1913 webster

            the deliberate judgment of those who knew him a.
            lincoln has hardened into tradition. --the century.
      1913 webster

   2. to become confirmed or strengthened, in either a good or a
      bad sense.
      1913 webster

            they, hardened more by what might most reclaim.
                                                  --milton.
      1913 webster

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
hurden \hur"den\, n. from hurds.
   a coarse kind of linen; -- called also harden. prov. eng.
   1913 webster
see also:
hurds harden 
[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0
harden
     v 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
see also:
indurate soften temper season inure 
[5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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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