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Word Meanings - HARDEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Etym: 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

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Etym: 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.

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    Capable of being repressed.
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    1. The act of discouraging, or the state of being discouraged; depression or weakening of confidence; dejection. 2. That which discourages; that which deters, or tends to deter, from an undertaking, or from the prosecution of anything; a determent;
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    Subdual. Shak.
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    One who, or that which, tranquilizes.
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    To press again.
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    To harden too much; to make too hard. Boyle.
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    In a manner or to a degree that can not be repressed.
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    One who settles at a distance, or away, from others.
  • CASEHARDEN
    1. To subject to a process which converts the surface of iron into steel. 2. To render insensible to good influences.

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