intransitive verb. To make hard or harder.

intransitive verb. To enable to withstand physical or mental hardship.

intransitive verb. To make unfeeling, unsympathetic, or callous.

intransitive verb. To make fixed, settled, or less subject to change.

intransitive verb. To make less vulnerable to attack by surrounding with earth or concrete.

intransitive verb. To become hard or harder.

intransitive verb. To become fixed, settled, or less subject to change.

intransitive verb. To become inured.

intransitive verb. To take on a disapproving or severe appearance.

intransitive verb. To rise and become stable. Used of prices.

Of hards or inferior flax.

noun. Hards or inferior flax.

noun. A cloth of coarse fiber and texture, made from hards.

To make hard or more hard in substance or texture; make firm or compact; indurate: as, to harden steel, clay, or tallow; to harden the hands or muscles by toil.

To dry (clothes) by airing.

To make hard or harder in feeling; strengthen or confirm with respect to any element of character; inure; toughen; especially, to make indifferent, unfeeling, obstinate, wicked, etc.

Synonyms To accustom, discipline, train, toughen, habituate, steel, brace, nerve.

To become hard or more hard; acquire solidity or compactness: as, mortar hardens in drying.

To become inured or toughened; especially, to become unfeeling.

To rise in price; grow dear: as, the market hardens.

transitive verb. To make hard or harder; to make firm or compact; to indurate.

transitive verb. 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.

intransitive verb. To become hard or harder; to acquire solidity, or more compactness.

intransitive verb. To become confirmed or strengthened, in either a good or a bad sense.

verb. To become hard (tough, resistant to pressure).

verb. To make something hard or harder (tough, resistant to pressure).

verb. To become or make a person or thing resistant or less sensitive.

verb. make fit

verb. cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate

verb. harden by reheating and cooling in oil

verb. become hard or harder

verb. make hard or harder

"How inconstant are your feelings! but a moment ago you were moved by my representations, and why do you again harden yourself to my complaints?"

hardened glass  soften  to harden the neck  

harden someone's heart  

modify  toughen  

Arden  Garden  garden  pardon  

Charlottetown  alcohol-resistant  battle-hardened  caitiff  cretinous  

acclimate  acclimatize  accommodate  accustom  adapt  

hardened  hardening  hardens