[
UK
/hˈɑːdən/
]
[ US /ˈhɑɹdən/ ]
[ US /ˈhɑɹdən/ ]
VERB
-
make hard or harder
The cold hardened the butter -
harden by reheating and cooling in oil
temper steel -
make fit
This trip will season even the hardiest traveller -
cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate
He was inured to the cold -
become hard or harder
The wax hardened
How To Use harden In A Sentence
- My body absorbed that ability as well; my veins are internally hardened against acids.
- The bird's silky down began to coarsen and fray, and its beak began to harden and grow. Old Egg
- When his friends called him a coward his resolve was only hardened. Times, Sunday Times
- A pupa covered by the hardened 3rd larval skin is known as a coarctate pupa..
- ‘This is evident in a number of markets where rents are falling, but yields are not only holding steady, but in most instances hardening,’ he said.
- Using encapsulated liquid tricyclic, like diolefin, and some kind of catalyst for quick hardening. Archive 2009-03-01
- They are only preparing them for the preferential treatment awaiting them when they become hardened criminals in modern jails. The Sun
- It is enough to give the hardened British holidaymaker a complex. Times, Sunday Times
- As it was, his expression hardened, the catlike sharpness of his pupils glinting dangerously.
- But what Pete and Katrina can vouch for is a degree of comfort at their events that could convert the most hardened anti-festival goers.
