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/hˈɑrdənɪŋ/ /hˈɑrdnɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Harden v. t. (past & past part. hardened; pres. part. hardening)

To make hard or harder; to make firm or compact; to indurate; as, to harden clay or iron.

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. "Harden not your heart." "I would harden myself in sorrow."

Harden v. i.

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."

To become confirmed or strengthened, in either a good or a bad sense. "They, hardened more by what might most reclaim."

noun

Hardening n.

Making hard or harder.

That which hardens, as a material used for converting the surface of iron into steel.

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Etymology of 'Hardening'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Hardening" Quotes from Famous Books

... a living animal, and the shell was formed by the hardening of the soft material of its body. It grew just as your hard finger nails grow. Here is another Bulla. This is the Bulla Velum. You see its general shape is much like the other; but the markings ...

— Charley's Museum - A Story for Young People • Unknown

... eyes narrowed, and with a singular hardening of expression, a tightening of the jaw, he peered away at the dim, haze-shrouded line of far ...

— Darkness and Dawn • George Allan England

... alloy. For example, if vapours of the volatile metals cadmium, zinc and magnesium are allowed to act on platinum or palladium, alloys are produced. The methods of manufacture of steel by cementation, case-hardening and the Harvey process are important operations which appear to depend on the diffusion of the carburetting material into the solid metal. When a solution of silver nitrate is poured on to metallic mercury, the mercury replaces the silver in ...

— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia

... to Edith's heart. As she sat by the window staring out, he watched her shapely little head; he noted the hardening lines on her forehead and the gray which had come in her hair. It had been no easy move for her, this, she'd shown pluck to take it so quietly. He saw her smile a little, then frown and go on with her thinking. What was she thinking ...

— His Family • Ernest Poole

... face there was no trace of tears. On the contrary, he seemed hardening into stone, and in his heart fierce passions were contending for the mastery, and urging him on to an act from which, in his right mind, he would have shrunk. Rising slowly at last, he came around to Morris' side, ...

— Family Pride - Or, Purified by Suffering • Mary J. Holmes

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