harden
['hɑrdn.]
vt. 使硬, 使坚, 使冷酷

vi. 硬, 冷酷

[] 硬, 使硬

1. Life in the camp had hardened him considerably.
   营活使坚。
2. His face hardened at the word.
   话，沉。
3. Hot steel is quenched to harden it.
   烧热钢淬火使坚硬。

harden
[ verb ]

1. become hard or harder

<verb.change> indurate
The wax hardened

2. make hard or harder

<verb.change> indurate
The cold hardened the butter

3. harden by reheating and cooling in oil

<verb.change> temper
temper steel

4. make fit

<verb.change> season
This trip will season even the hardiest traveller

5. cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate

<verb.change> indurate inure
He was inured to the cold

Harden \Hard"en\ (h[aum]rd"'n), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Hardened}
(-'nd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Hardening} (-'n*[i^]ng).] [OE.
hardnen, hardenen.]
1. To make hard or harder; to make firm or compact; to
indurate; as, to harden clay or iron.

2. To accustom by labor or suffering to endure with
constancy; to strengthen; to stiffen; to inure; also, to
confirm in wickedness or shame; to make unimpressionable.
``Harden not your heart.'' --Ps. xcv. 8.

I would harden myself in sorrow. --Job vi. 10.


Harden \Hard"en\, v. i.
1. To become hard or harder; to acquire solidity, or more
compactness; as, mortar hardens by drying.

The deliberate judgment of those who knew him [A.
Lincoln] has hardened into tradition. --The Century.

2. To become confirmed or strengthened, in either a good or a
bad sense.

They, hardened more by what might most reclaim.
--Milton.


Hurden \Hur"den\, n. [From {Hurds}.]
A coarse kind of linen; -- called also {harden}. [Prov. Eng.]