harden

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verb

1. become hard or harder (Freq. 4)
- The wax hardened
• Syn:
indurate
• Ant:
soften
• Derivationally related forms:
induration (for: indurate), hardening
• Hypernyms:
change
• Hyponyms:
encrust, incrust, callus, calcify, cure
• Verb Group:
indurate
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
- Somebody ----s
2. make hard or harder
- The cold hardened the butter
• Syn:
indurate
• Ant:
soften
• Derivationally related forms:
induration (for: indurate), hardening
• Hypernyms:
change
• Hyponyms:
face-harden, callus, anneal, temper, normalize
• Verb Group:
indurate
• Cause:
indurate
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s somebody
- Something ----s something
3. harden by reheating and cooling in oil
- temper steel
• Syn:
temper
• Derivationally related forms:
temper (for: temper), tempering (for: temper), temperance (for: temper)
• Hypernyms:
modify
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
4. make fit
- This trip will season even the hardiest traveller
• Syn:
season
• Hypernyms:
toughen
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s somebody
5. cause to accept or become hardened to;
habituate
- He was inured to the cold
• Syn:
inure, indurate
• Hypernyms:
habituate, accustom
• Hyponyms:
callous, cauterize, cauterise, steel oneself against, steel onself for,
brace oneself for, prepare for
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Somebody ----s somebody PP

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  inure, indurate, season, temper