Harden

What do we mean by harden?

To make hard or harder. intransitive verb

To enable to withstand physical or mental hardship. intransitive verb

To make unfeeling, unsympathetic, or callous. intransitive verb

To make fixed, settled, or less subject to change. intransitive verb

To make less vulnerable to attack by surrounding with earth or concrete. intransitive verb

To become hard or harder. intransitive verb

To become fixed, settled, or less subject to change. intransitive verb

To become inured. intransitive verb

To take on a disapproving or severe appearance. intransitive verb

To rise and become stable. Used of prices. intransitive verb

Of hards or inferior flax.

Hards or inferior flax. noun

A cloth of coarse fiber and texture, made from hards. noun

To make hard or more hard in substance or texture; make firm or compact; indurate: as, to harden steel, clay, or tallow; to harden the hands or muscles by toil.

To dry (clothes) by airing.

To make hard or harder in feeling; strengthen or confirm with respect to any element of character; inure; toughen; especially, to make indifferent, unfeeling, obstinate, wicked, etc.

Synonyms To accustom, discipline, train, toughen, habituate, steel, brace, nerve.

To become hard or more hard; acquire solidity or compactness: as, mortar hardens in drying.

To become inured or toughened; especially, to become unfeeling.

To rise in price; grow dear: as, the market hardens.

To become hard (tough, resistant to pressure).

To make something hard or harder (tough, resistant to pressure).

To strengthen.

To modify (a website or other system) to make it resistant to malicious attacks.

To become or make (a person or thing) resistant or less sensitive.

To become or make (a consonant) more fortis.

Words that are spelled similarly to harden:
harden, garden, warden, harken, arden, harder, hayden, varden, hardon, barden, hardin, haren, harten, hurden, hadden, darden, carden, hamden, marden, hardee, haden, haiden, hardel, harmen, yarden, halden, rarden, harren, hardmen, horden, hardey, farden, harde, harnden, handen, harlen.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word harden:
hardening, lazar, shire, hurdle, weaver, deformation, libel, pharaoh, shin, beck, hayward, lin, thunder, nba, cubs, tissues, vol, assists, hearts, wolf, composite, oakland, affair, houston, cole, soft, trio, clay, teeth, kevin, advocate, heart, drafted, tissue, steel, cook, eric, rangers, innings, pitched, piano, points, scott.

Words that rhyme with harden:
garden, pardon, arden, jardin, sardan, varden, market garden, chardin, dardan, zoological garden, barden, cardin, hardin, gardon, tea garden, darden, botanical garden, carden, rock garden, kitchen garden, sunken garden, marden, roof garden, herb garden, ardon, indoor garden, rose garden, free pardon, truck garden, victory garden, flower garden, teegarden, vegetable garden, ardin, teagarden, gardin, hop garden, bardin, mardon, lustgarten, janardhan, ard in, are done, backyard in, bard in, barnyard in, barred in, beauregard in, bernard in, boatyard in, bodyguard in, borchard in, bouchard in, boulevard in, brickyard in, burchard in, canard in, card in, char din, chard in, charred in, churchyard in, courtyard in, disbarred in, discard in, disregard in, dockyard in, far done, farmyard in, gard in, garda in, garde in, garde un, gelardin, gerard in, gerhard in, girard in, giscard in, godard in, graveyard in, guard in, guardin, hard done, hard in, hildegard in, hypercard in, jar din, jarred in, junkyard in, lard in, lifeguard in, lumberyard in, marred in, mastercard in, menard in, parden, picard in, postcard in, rardon, regard in.

Adjectives that are often used to describe harden:
young, concrete, old, rough, scott, uterus, cold, day, further, mortar, late, necessary, girt, bleak, poor, average, american, astute, famous, ovule, unsullied, big, german, next, womb.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective harden:
hickey, jones, off, steel, pieces, trial, tissues, ing, systems, interview, celloidin, parts, surface, tube, criminals, plants, cloth, materials, iron, heart, steels, bag, copper, alloys, sheets, young, blocks, surfaces, nipples, ability, portions, gears, specimens, mounts.

Consonant match to harden:
hard-on, hordein, hardin, hurden.

Words that sound like harden:
harden, hardon, hardin, horden, hearten, hard-on, harten, harton, hard on, horton, harding, whoredom, horten, hartin, whorton, hardened, hardens, harda, hardman, hardener, hartung, heart on, harnden, hardeman, hodden, hard won, hardmen, hurden, hoarding, hording, yarden, pardon, warden, barden, darden, carden, lardon, marden, jardon, mardon, dardan, kardon, sardan, cardan, mardan, horan, hearting, horen, howden, harting, hauran, hordern, hardy, hayden, borden, cordon, haden, haydn, hartman, heartened, hardline, harridan, hardie, hardee, haren, headen, hadden, haydon, haran, headon, cardin, haddon, hardey, haiden, bordon, harshen, hard day, hardi, hartmann, hard man, cordone, harren, hardel, harron, hearon, bardin, harran, hardpan, chardin, harston, harta, hartson, hard-won, has done, hard rain, haddan, had done, hard line, haidan, hard-line.