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- pronunciation:
- har
dn
- parts of speech:
- transitive verb, intransitive verb
- features:
- Word Combinations (verb), Word Parts
part of speech: |
transitive verb |
inflections: |
hardens, hardening, hardened |
definition 1: |
to make hard or more resistant to pressure.
Baking will harden the clay.- antonyms:
- soften
- similar words:
- firm, fortify
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definition 2: |
to make insensitive or unfeeling.
I hardened my heart towards him.- antonyms:
- soften
- similar words:
- callous
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definition 3: |
to make tough or inured.
The war has hardened him.- antonyms:
- soften
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related words: |
cake, concrete, condition, congeal, set |
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part of speech: |
intransitive verb |
definition 1: |
to become hard or more resistant to pressure.
The paste hardened.- antonyms:
- soften
- similar words:
- fix, knot, set
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definition 2: |
to become insensitive or unfeeling.
Jail only seems to harden the inmates.- antonyms:
- soften
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definition 3: |
to become unyielding or tough.
Her heart hardened, and she would not give in.- antonyms:
- soften
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related words: |
cement, concrete |
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