harden
pronunciation
How to pronounce harden in British English:
UK [ˈhɑːdn]
How to pronounce harden in American English:
US [ˈhɑːrdn]
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- Verb:
- become hard or harder
- make hard or harder
- harden by reheating and cooling in oil
- make fit
- cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate
Word Origin
- harden (n.)
- c. 1200, transitive, "make (something) hard," from hard (adj.) + -en (1). Intransitive meaning "to become hard" is late 14c. The earlier verb was simply hard, from Old English heardian. Related: Hardened; hardening.
Antonym
Example
- 1. Place chocolate-dipped fruit onto parchment-lined sheet pan to cool and harden .
- 2. To make the chocolate harden quickly , put it in the freezer for a few minutes .
- 3. Don 't harden your heart against your own relatives .
- 4. China seemed to harden its stance over the territorial dispute .
- 5. The chemicals vlasopoulos mixes with magnesium oxide and water to make the cement harden are magnesium carbonates , which he makes by adding carbon dioxide to other raw materials .