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Synonyms for harden
ˈhɑr dnhard·en

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  1. harden

    Synonyms:
    inure, train, habituate, confirm, indurate, consolidate, compact

    Antonyms:
    disinure, relax, enervate, debilitate, dishabituate, soften, melt, mollify, colliquate, vaporize

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. harden, indurateverb

    become hard or harder

    "The wax hardened"

    Synonyms:
    inure, indurate, season, temper

    Antonyms:
    soften

  2. harden, indurateverb

    make hard or harder

    "The cold hardened the butter"

    Synonyms:
    inure, indurate, season, temper

    Antonyms:
    soften

  3. temper, hardenverb

    harden by reheating and cooling in oil

    "temper steel"

    Synonyms:
    temper, season, chasten, anneal, mollify, moderate, indurate, inure, normalize

    Antonyms:
    soften

  4. season, hardenverb

    make fit

    "This trip will season even the hardiest traveller"

    Synonyms:
    temper, season, mollify, flavour, flavor, inure, indurate

    Antonyms:
    soften

  5. inure, harden, indurateverb

    cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate

    "He was inured to the cold"

    Synonyms:
    indurate, season, inure, temper

    Antonyms:
    soften

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  1. solidifies

    Submitted by anonymous on May 19, 2021  

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. hardenverb

    Synonyms:
    indurate, make hard, make callous

  2. hardenverb

    Synonyms:
    habituate, inure, season, accustom, form, train, discipline

  3. hardenverb

    Synonyms:
    strengthen, fortify, steel, nerve, brace

  4. hardenverb

    Synonyms:
    sear, make callous, render insensible

  5. hardenverb

    Synonyms:
    make obdurate, confirm in wickedness

  6. hardenverb

    Synonyms:
    grow or become hard

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. hardenverb

    Synonyms:
    indurate, solidify, petrify, ossify, sear, brutalize, embitter, inure, season, fortify, steel, brace, accustom

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "harden":

    hardin, toughen, söderman

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How to use harden in a sentence?

  1. Adam Schiff:

    I … think that ISIS may have concluded that the best way to defeat airport defenses is not to go through them, but to go around them with the help of somebody on the inside, and if that's the case, I think there are probably at least a dozen airports in the region and beyond that are vulnerable to the same kind of approach, which is exactly why we have to harden those defenses.

  2. James Harden:

    James Harden said. James Harden was then asked why The Rockets were flat through three quarters. Good question.

  3. Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul:

    What's going to happen is it's going to harden people's resolve on this issue, i think what's going to happen is that state and localities are just going to opt out of the marriage business.

  4. Antonio Barroso:

    The good result of the extreme-left Left Bloc will force the Socialists to harden their stance towards the government, which does not bode well for political stability over the medium term.

  5. Kyrie Irving:

    We stuck to the game plan, we didn't want a talented guy like James Harden to beat us. We wanted their other guys to beat us and we forced him to pass off to other guys and we trusted our weakside rotation.


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