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

1. transitive verb. To make hard or harder; to make firm or compact; to indurate; as, to harden clay or iron.
2. 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.
3. intransitive verb. To become hard or harder; to acquire solidity, or more compactness; as, mortar hardens by drying.
4. intransitive verb. To become confirmed or strengthened, in either a good or a bad sense.
5. verb. cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate

   "He was inured to the cold"

   Synonyms: indurate, inure

6. verb. make fit

   "This trip will season even the hardiest traveller"

   Synonyms: season

7. verb. harden by reheating and cooling in oil

   "temper steel"

   Synonyms: temper

8. verb. become hard or harder

   "The wax hardened"

   Synonyms: indurate

9. verb. make hard or harder

   "The cold hardened the butter"

   Synonyms: indurate

Synonyms

indurate, inure, season, temper

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in harden:

hander

Common word forms

hardens, hardened, hardener, hardening, hardenable

Words from these letters

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