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harden::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| 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 hardens
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Could there be a connection along the lines that extra calcium hardens toenails?
From the newscientist.com
The liquid mix hardens as the engine runs, causing it to irreversibly seize up.
From the abcnews.go.com
The chemical reaction creates a gel-like material that hardens in about one week.
From the sciencedaily.com
Cover and refrigerate the drippings until the fat rises to the top and hardens.
From the stltoday.com
This cholesterol droplet then hardens into the crystals that make up a gallstone.
From the scienceblogs.com
The majority of bone is made after the matrix hardens and entraps the osteoblasts.
From the sciencedaily.com
Over time, wax oxidises and hardens, sticking the dark particles to the paper.
From the newscientist.com
As this solution drips over time, it hardens in layers, creating a column of rock.
From the sciencedaily.com
As their control of the situation spirals, Raymond's face hardens to the task.
From the ocregister.com
- 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. ...
