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

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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

Matched Categories

1. • Change
   • Habituate
   • Modify
   • Toughen

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1. solidifies

   Submitted by anonymous on May 19, 2021  

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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

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1. hardenverb

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

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1. List of paraphrases for "harden":

   hardin, toughen, söderman

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1. 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.

2. Benjamin Read:

   We had a big blind spot, and we knew there were a series of steps we could take to harden and secure the agencies.

3. Theodore Parker:

   Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh.

4. Charles Krauthammer:

   You can harden all of the soft targets you want in America. You can keep all the Muslim immigrants you want away from our shores. It will make no difference.

5. David Gelfand:

   A political appointee who runs a law enforcement agency doesn’t get to re-envision the law, the law is what the law is. It’s been developed through decades of cases, economic work… I think all he accomplished in this case was to harden the law in an area where he would like to see it moved.