Harden

Harden - Other Definitions

• (v. t.) To make hard or harder; to make firm or compact; to indurate; as, to harden clay or iron.
  
  
• (v. t.) 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.
  
  
• (v. i.) To become hard or harder; to acquire solidity, or more compactness; as, mortar hardens by drying.
  
  
• (v. i.) To become confirmed or strengthened, in either a good or a bad sense.
  
  
• (imp. & p. p.) of Harden
  
  
• (a.) Made hard, or compact; made unfeeling or callous; made obstinate or obdurate; confirmed in error or vice.