Another word for harden
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Verb
To make or become physically hard
- To make solid, compact, or hard:
- To make strong or united:
- To become solid:
- To put in a specified position or arrangement; place:
- To put into a specified state:
- To cause to begin an action:
- To convert (wood or other organic matter) into a stony replica by petrifaction.
- To cause to lose vitality or become impervious to change; deaden:
- To stun or paralyze with terror; daze.
- To make hard; harden:
- To inure, as to hardship or ridicule.
- To make callous or obdurate:
- Free from liquid or moisture:
- Having or characterized by little or no rain:
- Marked by the absence of natural or normal moisture:
- To solidify or coagulate:
- To come together so as to form a whole or produce a result:
- To cause to solidify or coagulate:
- Of or relating to an actual, specific thing or instance; particular:
- Relating to nouns, such as flower or rain, that denote a material or tangible object or phenomenon.
- Existing in reality or in real experience; perceptible by the senses; real:
- A sweet baked food made of flour, liquid, eggs, and other ingredients, such as raising agents and flavorings.
- A flat rounded mass of dough or batter, such as a pancake that is baked or fried.
- A flat rounded mass of hashed or chopped food that is baked or fried; a patty.
See also:To make firmer in a particular conviction or habit
- To make strong or increase the strength of.
- To become strong or stronger.
- To strengthen and secure (a position) with fortifications.
- To reinforce by adding material.
- To impart physical strength or endurance to; invigorate.
- To support or establish the certainty or validity of; verify:
- To reaffirm the establishment of (a reservation or advance arrangement).
- To make firmer; strengthen:
See also:To make resistant to hardship, especially through continued exposure
- To make or become tough.
- One of the four natural divisions of the year, spring, summer, fall, and winter, in the North and South Temperate zones. Each season, beginning astronomically at an equinox or solstice, is characterized by specific meteorological or climatic conditions.
- The two divisions of the year, rainy and dry, in some tropical regions.
- A recurrent period characterized by certain occurrences, occupations, festivities, or crops:
- To make hard; harden:
- To inure, as to hardship or ridicule.
- To make callous or obdurate:
- To harden the surface or case of (iron or steel) by high-temperature shallow infusion of carbon followed by quenching.
- To make callous or insensitive.
- To acclimate.
- To adapt (oneself), especially to environmental or climatic changes.
- To become acclimated or adapted.
- To accustom or become accustomed to a new environment or situation; adapt.
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Another word for harden
Verb
To make less pervious
- to turn into stone
- To cover or coat with or as if with a crust:
- To decorate by inlaying or overlaying with a contrasting material:
- To undergo thickening or cause to thicken, as by boiling or evaporation; condense.
- Of or relating to an actual, specific thing or instance; particular:
- Relating to nouns, such as flower or rain, that denote a material or tangible object or phenomenon.
- Existing in reality or in real experience; perceptible by the senses; real:
- To correct or set right; adjust:
- To restore to proper condition or working order; repair:
- To make ready for a specific purpose, as by altering or combining elements; prepare:
- To make or become tough.
- A rich sweet confection made with sugar and often flavored or combined with fruits or nuts.
- A piece of such a confection.
- An illicit drug, especially one, such as cocaine, that has a sugary appearance or a drug in pill form, such as MDMA.
- To put or set down; place.
- To lay down or leave behind by a natural process:
- To give over or entrust for safekeeping.
- To make hard; harden:
- To inure, as to hardship or ridicule.
- To make callous or obdurate:
- thickened; swollen
- Having calluses; toughened:
- Emotionally hardened; unfeeling:
- To make or become callous.
- To improve the strength, resiliency, and freedom from stickiness and odor of (rubber, for example) by combining with sulfur or other additives in the presence of heat and pressure.
- To make of or decorate with brass.
- To make hard like brass.
- To dry out thoroughly.
- To preserve (foods) by removing the moisture.
- To make dry, dull, or lifeless:
- To convert into a fossil.
- To make outmoded or inflexible with time; antiquate.
- To become a fossil.
- A rapid, persistent chemical change that releases heat and light and is accompanied by flame, especially the exothermic oxidation of a combustible substance:
- A specific instance of this change that destroys something:
- A burning fuel:
- The star around which Earth and other planets orbit. It provides heat and light to Earth. It has a mean distance from Earth of about 150 million kilometers (93 million miles), a diameter of approximately 1,391,000 kilometers (864,000 miles), and a mass about 333,000 times that of Earth.
- A star that is the center of a planetary system.
- The radiant energy, especially heat and visible light, emitted by the sun; sunshine.
- To direct or draw toward a common center; focus.
- To bring into one main body:
- To make (a solution or mixture) less dilute.
- To unite into one system or whole; combine:
- To make strong or secure; strengthen:
- To make firm or coherent; form into a compact mass.
- Closely and firmly united or packed together; dense:
- Occupying little space compared with others of its type:
- Brief and to the point; concise:
- A building material made by grinding calcined limestone and clay to a fine powder, which can be mixed with water and poured to set as a solid mass or used as an ingredient in making mortar or concrete.
- Portland cement.
- Concrete.
- To make flat or flatter.
- To knock down; lay low:
- To become flat or flatter.
- Free from liquid or moisture:
- Having or characterized by little or no rain:
- Marked by the absence of natural or normal moisture:
- To cook (food) with dry heat, especially in an oven.
- To harden or dry (something) by subjecting to heat in or as if in an oven:
- To cook food with dry heat.
- A drug or course of medical treatment used to restore health:
- Restoration of health; recovery from disease:
- Something that corrects or relieves a harmful or disturbing situation:
- A naturally abundant nutrient carbohydrate, (C6 H10 O5 )n , found chiefly in the seeds, fruits, tubers, roots, and stem pith of plants, notably in corn, potatoes, wheat, and rice, and varying widely in appearance according to source but commonly prepared as a white amorphous tasteless powder.
- Any of various substances, such as natural starch, used to stiffen cloth, as in laundering.
- Foods having a high content of starch, as rice, breads, and potatoes.
- To convert (wood or other organic matter) into a stony replica by petrifaction.
- To cause to lose vitality or become impervious to change; deaden:
- To stun or paralyze with terror; daze.
- To change into bone; become bony.
- To become set in a rigidly conventional pattern:
- To convert (a membrane or cartilage, for example) into bone.
- To solidify or coagulate:
- To come together so as to form a whole or produce a result:
- To cause to solidify or coagulate:
- To form into grains or granules.
- To make rough and grainy.
- To become granular or grainy.
- A thick, viscous, or coagulated mass or lump, as of blood.
- A clump, mass, or lump, as of clay.
- A compact group:
- To cause transformation of (a liquid or sol, for example) into or as if into a soft, semisolid, or solid mass.
- To become coagulated:
- To combine into a unified or integrated whole; unite.
- To mix or alloy (a metal) with mercury.
- To become combined; unite.
- To pass from the liquid to the solid state by loss of heat.
- To acquire a surface or coat of ice from cold:
- To become clogged or jammed because of the formation of ice:
- To cause to form crystals or assume a crystalline structure.
- To give a definite, precise, and usually permanent form to:
- To coat with crystals, as of sugar.
- To undergo cornification.
- To cause to happen, especially suddenly or prematurely:
- To cause to fall down from a height; hurl downward:
- To put suddenly into a certain state or condition:
- To change or make into glass or a glassy substance, especially through heat fusion.
- To become vitreous.
- To convert to a mineral substance; petrify.
- To transform a metal into a mineral by oxidation.
- To impregnate with minerals.
- To make solid, compact, or hard:
- To make strong or united:
- To become solid:
- To subject (glass or metal) to a process of heating and slow cooling in order to toughen and reduce brittleness.
- To strengthen or harden.
- To become strengthened or hardened:
- To modify by the addition of a moderating element; moderate:
- To bring to a desired consistency, texture, hardness, or other physical condition by blending, admixing, or kneading:
- To harden or strengthen (metal or glass) by application of heat or by heating and cooling.
- A generally hard, strong, durable, malleable alloy of iron and carbon, usually containing between 0.2 and 1.5 percent carbon, often with other constituents such as manganese, chromium, nickel, molybdenum, copper, tungsten, cobalt, or silicon, depending on the desired alloy properties, and widely used as a structural material.
- Something, such as a sword, that is made of steel.
- A quality suggestive of this alloy, especially a hard, unflinching character.
To become less penetrable
- An agreement between two or more parties, especially one that is written and enforceable by law.
- The writing or document containing such an agreement.
- The branch of law dealing with formal agreements between parties.
- Being near in space or time.
- Being near in relationship:
- Bound by mutual interests, loyalties, or affections; intimate:
- To cause transformation of (a liquid or sol, for example) into or as if into a soft, semisolid, or solid mass.
- To become coagulated:
- To change into curd.
- To become congealed or lumpy:
- To become spoiled or transformed into something bad:
- Resistant to externally applied pressure.
- Marked by or indicating the tone and resiliency of healthy tissue:
- Securely fixed in place:
- To put in a specified position or arrangement; place:
- To put into a specified state:
- To cause to begin an action:
- A sweet baked food made of flour, liquid, eggs, and other ingredients, such as raising agents and flavorings.
- A flat rounded mass of dough or batter, such as a pancake that is baked or fried.
- A flat rounded mass of hashed or chopped food that is baked or fried; a patty.
- A thick, viscous, or coagulated mass or lump, as of blood.
- A clump, mass, or lump, as of clay.
- A compact group:
- To convert into a fossil.
- To make outmoded or inflexible with time; antiquate.
- To become a fossil.
- To change into bone; become bony.
- To become set in a rigidly conventional pattern:
- To convert (a membrane or cartilage, for example) into bone.
- To convert (wood or other organic matter) into a stony replica by petrifaction.
- To cause to lose vitality or become impervious to change; deaden:
- To stun or paralyze with terror; daze.
- To end or resolve (a dispute, for example) by making a decision or coming to an agreement.
- To resolve (a lawsuit or dispute) by mutual agreement of the parties rather than by court decision.
- To make the determinations and distributions of (a trust).
- To correct or set right; adjust:
- To restore to proper condition or working order; repair:
- To make ready for a specific purpose, as by altering or combining elements; prepare:
- To become firm or gelatinous; congeal.
- To take shape or become clear; crystallize:
- To cause to become firm or gelatinous:
- To solidify or coagulate:
- To come together so as to form a whole or produce a result:
- To cause to solidify or coagulate:
- To make solid, compact, or hard:
- To make strong or united:
- To become solid:
To toughen
- A generally hard, strong, durable, malleable alloy of iron and carbon, usually containing between 0.2 and 1.5 percent carbon, often with other constituents such as manganese, chromium, nickel, molybdenum, copper, tungsten, cobalt, or silicon, depending on the desired alloy properties, and widely used as a structural material.
- Something, such as a sword, that is made of steel.
- A quality suggestive of this alloy, especially a hard, unflinching character.
- To affect with paralysis; cause to be paralytic.
- To make unable to move or act:
- To impair the progress or functioning of; make inoperative or powerless:
- To daze or render senseless, as by a blow or loud noise.
- To stupefy, as with the emotional impact of an experience; astound.
- A blow or shock that stupefies.
- To make numb, especially by cold.
- To render senseless or inactive, as from shock or boredom:
- To cause (someone) to be unable to think clearly or be sensitive to the surroundings; daze:
- To amaze; astonish:
- Deprived of the power to feel or move normally; benumbed:
- Emotionally unresponsive; indifferent:
- To make or become numb.
- To make poisonous or noxious.
- To embitter.
- Arousing little interest; lacking liveliness; boring:
- Not brisk or rapid; sluggish:
- Not having a sharp edge or point; blunt:
- Having a dull edge or end; not sharp.
- Abrupt and often disconcertingly frank in speech:
- Stark; unadorned:
- To make cruel, harsh, or unfeeling.
- To treat cruelly or harshly.
- To make strong or increase the strength of.
- To become strong or stronger.
- To bring from latency to or toward fulfillment:
- To expand or enlarge:
- To aid in the growth of; strengthen:
- To make bitter in flavor.
- To arouse bitter feelings in:
- To char, scorch, or burn the surface of.
- To brown (meat) quickly using very high heat.
- To cause to dry up and wither.
- To make or become rough.
- To make or become coarse.
- A series of connected railroad cars pulled or pushed by one or more locomotives.
- A long line of moving people, animals, or vehicles.
- The personnel, vehicles, and equipment following and providing supplies and services to a combat unit.
- To familiarize, as by constant practice, use, or habit:
- Training expected to produce a specific character or pattern of behavior, especially training that produces moral or mental improvement:
- Control obtained by enforcing compliance or order:
- Controlled behavior resulting from disciplinary training; self-control:
- One of the four natural divisions of the year, spring, summer, fall, and winter, in the North and South Temperate zones. Each season, beginning astronomically at an equinox or solstice, is characterized by specific meteorological or climatic conditions.
- The two divisions of the year, rainy and dry, in some tropical regions.
- A recurrent period characterized by certain occurrences, occupations, festivities, or crops:
- To habituate to something undesirable, especially by prolonged subjection; accustom:
- To accustom by frequent repetition or prolonged exposure.
- To cause physiological or psychological habituation, as to a drug.
- To experience habituation.
- To make hard; harden:
- To inure, as to hardship or ridicule.
- To make callous or obdurate:
- To acclimate.
- To adapt (oneself), especially to environmental or climatic changes.
- To become acclimated or adapted.
- To accustom or become accustomed to a new environment or situation; adapt.
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