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4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Harden \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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Harden \Hard"en\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Hardened}; p. pr & vb n. {Hardening}.] [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 Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Hurden \Hur"den\, n. [From {Hurds}.] A coarse kind of linen; -- called also {harden}. [Prov. Eng.] From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: harden v 1: become hard or harder; "The wax hardened" [ant: {soften}] 2: make hard or harder; "The cold hardened the butter" [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}]
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