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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Hardening \Hard"en*ing\, n. 1. Making hard or harder. 2. That which hardens, as a material used for converting the surface of iron into steel. 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 WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: hardening n 1: abnormal hardening or thickening of tissue 2: the process of becoming hard or solid by cooling or drying or crystallization; "the hardening of concrete"; "he tested the set of the glue" [syn: {solidifying}, {solidification}, {set}] 3: the act of making something harder (firmer or tighter or more compact)
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