harden : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: harden	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for harden
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
harden v become hard or harder; "The wax hardened" [syn: harden, indurate] Antonym(s): soften make hard or harder; "The cold hardened the butter" Synonym(s): harden, indurate Antonym(s): soften harden by reheating and cooling in oil; "temper steel" Synonym(s): temper, harden make fit; "This trip will season even the hardiest traveller" Synonym(s): season, harden cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate; "He was inured to the cold" Synonym(s): inure, harden, indurate
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. [bd]Harden not your heart.[b8] --Ps. xcv. 8. I would harden myself in sorrow. --Job vi. 10.
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]:
Hurden \Hur"den\, n. [From {Hurds}.] A coarse kind of linen; -- called also {harden}. [Prov. Eng.]