Hardening Synonyms and Antonyms

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The process of becoming hard or solid by cooling or drying or crystallization
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. solidification
  2. thickening
  3. crystallization
  4. solidifying
  5. setting
  6. set
  7. curing
Harden by reheating and cooling in oil
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. tempering
  2. indurating
  3. strengthening
  4. thickening
  5. stiffening
  6. steeling
  7. petrifying
  8. ossifying
  9. inuring
  10. freezing
  11. fortifying
  12. congealing
  13. concreting
  14. fixing
  15. candying
  16. coagulating
  17. depositing
  18. cementing
  19. vulcanizing
  20. settling
  21. desiccating
  22. setting
  23. firing
  24. seasoning
  25. concentrating
  26. searing
  27. compacting
  28. flattening
  29. dry
  30. baking
  31. curing
  32. starching
  33. enduring
  34. embittering
  35. condensing
  36. granulating
  37. clotting
  38. amalgamating
  39. caking
  40. brutalizing
  41. crystallizing
  42. bracing
  43. precipitating
  44. annealing
  45. accustoming
  46. acclimating
  47. confirming
Antonyms:
  1. melting
  2. indulging
  3. spoiling
  4. unloosing
  5. softening
Synonyms:
(Adjective)
  1. stiffening
  2. fossilizing

Words Related to Hardening

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Hardening Sentence Examples

  • As a result of this gradual hardening and fibrosis of the fascia, symptoms may arise many years after the original incident.

  • These herbs are never grown in a greenhouse, so they don't require any hardening.

  • Thus its non-liability to freeze (when not absolutely anhydrous, which it practically never is when freely exposed to the air) and its nonvolatility at ordinary temperatures, combined with its power of always keeping fluid and not drying up and hardening, render it valuable as a lubricating agent for clockwork, watches, &c., as a substitute for water in wet gas-meters, and as an ingredient in cataplasms, plasters, modelling clay, pasty colouring matters, dyeing materials, moist colours for artists, and numerous other analogous substances which are required to be kept in a permanently soft condition.

  • The best buildings in Havana are constructed of a very rich white limestone, soft and readily worked when fresh, but hardening and slightly darkening with age.

  • The shares, when made of the same material, required constant sharpening; this necessity was removed by the device, patented by Robert Ransome in 1803, of chilling and so hardening the under-surface of the share; the upper surface, which is soft, then wears away more quickly than the chilled part, whereby a sharp edge is always assured.

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