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hardeningverbpresent participle of harden to become physically firm or solidthe glue begins to harden as soon as it is exposed to air concreting, congealing, firming (up), freezing, indurating, setting, solidifying caking, callusing, encrusting(also incrusting)clotting, coagulating, gelating, gelatinizing, gelling, jelling, jellying, stiffening, thickeningcalcifying, crystallizing(also crystalizing), ossifying, petrifying, rigidifyingannealing, case-hardening, tempering liquefying(also liquifying), softening deliquescing, dissolving, fluxing, fusing, melting, smelting, thawing, unfreezing to make able to withstand physical hardship, strain, or exposurepioneer women who had been hardened by years of living on the plains fortifying, indurating, inuring, seasoning, steeling, strengthening, toughening acclimating, acclimatizing, adapting, adjustingannealing, temperinginvigorating, vitalizingimmunizingbolstering, boosting, bracing, buttressing, enforcing, forearming, propping (up), reinforcing(also reenforcing), supportingbreaking in, limbering (up), trainingaccustoming, conditioning, habituating, naturalizing softening emasculating, enervating, enfeebling, exhausting, sapping, weakeningcrippling, debilitating, hamstringing, incapacitatingsensitizing to increase the ability of (as a muscle) to exert physical forcearm muscles that were hardened by all the years of casting and hauling his fishing nets beefing (up), fortifying, strengthening, toughening annealing, temperingfirming (up), toning (up)energizing, invigorating, vitalizingrestrengthening debilitating, enervating, enfeebling, weakening crippling, incapacitating, paralyzingdamaging, harming, hurting, impairing, injuringbreaking down, wearing outsapping, undercutting, undermining to make more harsh, uncompromising, or severethe government hardened restrictions on travel to and from the war-torn nation harshening, stiffening, strengthening, toughening ameliorating, easing lessening, moderating, softening in the 15th century |