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How to pronounce harden in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms temper
Type of modify
Type Words
Synonyms season
Type of toughen
Type Words
Synonyms indurate
Type of change
Has types temper, callus, anneal, normalize, face-harden
Verb group indurate
Derivation hardening


The cold hardened the butter.
Type Words
Synonyms indurate
Type of change
Has types incrust, calcify, cure, encrust, callus
Verb group indurate
Derivation hardening


The wax hardened.
Type Words
Synonyms indurate, inure
Type of accustom, habituate
Has types callous, cauterise, cauterize, steel onself for, prepare for, steel oneself against, brace oneself for

Examples of harden

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Return the cookies to the waxed paper to allow the chocolate to cool and harden.
From the news-journalonline.com
Harden said Twin City Security provides an officer for the Greenville rest area.
From the al.com
Harden allowed his first baserunner in the sixth, when Ruiz walked with one out.
From the dailyherald.com
Harden and the A's hope his performance will lead to a return to their rotation.
From the sacbee.com
Harden was traded by the Thunder to the Rockets before the start of this season.
From the sfgate.com
If the riots do harden public attitudes to welfare, the policy could be popular.
From the economist.com
Harden got a warm ovation when his name was announced with the starting lineups.
From the stltoday.com
Harden then made a pair of free throws before Lillard converted a reverse layup.
From the sfgate.com
But opinion may harden in his favour if the mixed jobless data were to continue.
From the thisismoney.co.uk
More examples
  • Become hard or harder; "The wax hardened"
  • Temper: harden by reheating and cooling in oil; "temper steel"
  • Season: make fit; "This trip will season even the hardiest traveller"
  • Inure: cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate; "He was inured to the cold"
  • (hardened) tempered: made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment; "a sword of tempered steel"; "tempered glass"
  • (hardened) protected against attack (especially by nuclear weapons); "hardened missile silos"
  • Harden is a small lunar impact crater that lies in the eastern part of the interior floor of the walled plain Mendeleev. It is located on the far side of the Moon, and cannot been seen from the Earth.
  • (Hardening (botany)) Hardening in botany is the process by which an individual plant becomes tolerant to the effects of freezing during a period of weeks to months. It is a three stage process. ...
  • (Hardening (computing)) In computing, hardening is usually the process of securing a system by reducing its surface of vulnerability. A system has a larger vulnerability surface the more that it does; in principle a single-function system is more secure than a multipurpose one. ...