| Main Entry: | harden |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make or become solid |
Synonyms: |
amalgamate, anneal, bake, brace, buttress, cake, calcify, callous, cement, close, clot, coagulate, compact, congeal, consolidate, contract, crystallize, curdle, densify, dry, firm, fix, fortify, fossilize, freeze, gird, indurate, jell, nerve, ossify, petrify, precipitate, press, reinforce, set, settle, solidify, starch, steel, stiffen, strengthen, temper, thicken, toughen, vitrify |
Antonyms: |
liquefy, melt, soften |
| Main Entry: | harden |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | accustom |
Synonyms: |
acclimate, acclimatize, adapt, adjust, blunt, brutalize, callous, callus, case-harden, climatize, coarsen, conform, deaden, develop, discipline, dull, embitter, habituate, indurate, inure, make callous, numb, paralyze, render insensitive, roughen, season, steel, stiffen, strengthen, stun, stupefy, teach, train |
Antonyms: |
be intolerant, indulge, spoil |
| Main Entry: | indurate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | harden |
Synonyms: |
acclimate, acclimatize, amalgamate, anneal, bake, brace, buttress, cake, calcify, callous, caseharden, cement, close, clot, coagulate, compact, concrete, congeal, consolidate, contract, crystallize, curdle, densify, dry, firm, fix*, fortify, fossilize, freeze, gird, jell, nerve, ossify, petrify, precipitate, press, reinforce, season, set, settle, solidify, starch, steel, stiffen, strengthen, temper, thicken, toughen, vitrify |