Dictionary Entry
harden
harden is a 6-letter English word with 9 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To make hard or harder; to make firm or compact; to indurate; as, to harden clay or iron. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 10 · 9 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To make hard or harder; to make firm or compact; to indurate; as, to harden clay or iron.
- 2transitive 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.
- 3intransitive verb
To become hard or harder; to acquire solidity, or more compactness; as, mortar hardens by drying.
- 4intransitive verb
To become confirmed or strengthened, in either a good or a bad sense.
- 5verb
cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate
"He was inured to the cold"
- 6verb
make fit
"This trip will season even the hardiest traveller"
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- 7verb
harden by reheating and cooling in oil
"temper steel"
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- 8verb
become hard or harder
"The wax hardened"
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- 9verb
make hard or harder
"The cold hardened the butter"
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