harden

harden has 9 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 6.

Definitions

• v. t.. To make hard or harder; to make firm or compact; to indurate; as, to harden clay or iron.
• v. t.. 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.
• v. i.. To become hard or harder; to acquire solidity, or more compactness; as, mortar hardens by drying.
• v. i.. To become confirmed or strengthened, in either a good or a bad sense.
• v.. cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate; "He was inured to the cold"
• v.. make fit; "This trip will season even the hardiest traveller"
• v.. harden by reheating and cooling in oil; "temper steel"
• v.. become hard or harder; "The wax hardened"
• v.. make hard or harder; "The cold hardened the butter"