Synonyms for harden
ˈhɑr dnharden

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1. harden

   Synonyms:
   inure, train, habituate, confirm, indurate, consolidate, compact

   Antonyms:
   disinure, relax, enervate, debilitate, dishabituate, soften, melt, mollify, colliquate, vaporize

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1. harden, indurateverb

   become hard or harder

   "The wax hardened"

   Synonyms:
   inure, harden, indurate, season, temper

   Antonyms:
   soften

2. harden, indurateverb

   make hard or harder

   "The cold hardened the butter"

   Synonyms:
   inure, harden, indurate, season, temper

   Antonyms:
   soften

3. temper, hardenverb

   harden by reheating and cooling in oil

   "temper steel"

   Synonyms:
   temper, season, chasten, anneal, mollify, moderate, indurate, harden, inure, normalize

   Antonyms:
   soften

4. season, hardenverb

   make fit

   "This trip will season even the hardiest traveller"

   Synonyms:
   temper, season, mollify, flavour, harden, flavor, inure, indurate

   Antonyms:
   soften

5. inure, harden, indurateverb

   cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate

   "He was inured to the cold"

   Synonyms:
   harden, indurate, season, inure, temper

   Antonyms:
   soften

Matched Categories

1. • Change
   • Habituate
   • Modify
   • Toughen

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1. solidifies

   Submitted by anonymous on May 19, 2021  

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1. hardenverb

   Synonyms:
   indurate, make hard, make callous

2. hardenverb

   Synonyms:
   habituate, inure, season, accustom, form, train, discipline

3. hardenverb

   Synonyms:
   strengthen, fortify, steel, nerve, brace

4. hardenverb

   Synonyms:
   sear, make callous, render insensible

5. hardenverb

   Synonyms:
   make obdurate, confirm in wickedness

6. hardenverb

   Synonyms:
   grow or become hard

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1. hardenverb

   Synonyms:
   indurate, solidify, petrify, ossify, sear, brutalize, embitter, inure, season, fortify, steel, brace, accustom

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1. List of paraphrases for "harden":

   hardin, toughen, söderman

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How to use harden in a sentence?

1. Alex Stamos:

   You have a relatively small number of people with very large followings who have the ability to find a narrative somewhere, pick it out of obscurity — one tweet, one photo, one video — and harden it into these narratives.

2. Adam Schiff:

   I … think that ISIS may have concluded that the best way to defeat airport defenses is not to go through them, but to go around them with the help of somebody on the inside, and if that's the case, I think there are probably at least a dozen airports in the region and beyond that are vulnerable to the same kind of approach, which is exactly why we have to harden those defenses.

3. President Trump:

   We are writing out bump stocks, but we have to take steps to harden our schools so they are less vulnerable to attack.

4. Theodore Parker:

   Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh.

5. Antony Khoury:

   The sugar should be hot when poured or else it would harden when cold, you can also sprinkle sugar on top and torch it.