to harden

  • 11harden — [v1] make or become solid amalgamate, anneal, bake, brace, buttress, cake, calcify, callous, cement, close, clot, coagulate, compact, congeal, consolidate, contract, crystallize, curdle, densify, dry, firm, fix, fortify, fossilize, freeze, gird,… …

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  • 12harden your heart — harden (your) heart slightly formal to make yourself stop feeling kind or friendly towards someone. You ve just got to harden your heart and tell him to leave …

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  • 13harden heart — harden (your) heart slightly formal to make yourself stop feeling kind or friendly towards someone. You ve just got to harden your heart and tell him to leave …

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  • 14harden — [härd′ n] vt. [ME hardnen < ON harthna & < ME hard, HARD] 1. to make solid, rigid, or firm 2. to make callous [to harden one s heart] 3. to accustom to varying or adverse conditions or climate vi. to become solid, rigid, callous, etc …

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  • 15Harden — Hard en, v. i. 1. To become hard or harder; to acquire solidity, or more compactness; as, mortar hardens by drying. [1913 Webster] The deliberate judgment of those who knew him [A. Lincoln] has hardened into tradition. The Century. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 16Harden My Heart — is the most popular single by the pop group Quarterflash, off their Quarterflash album, released in 1981. It became a Top 5 pop hit, reaching #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 and reaching the top of the Mainstream Rock Chart. It was the group s only… …

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  • 17Harden — Harden, so v.w. Gemeine Muräne …

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  • 18Harden [1] — Harden, Dorf in Wales, s. Hawarden …

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  • 19Harden [2] — Harden, Maximilian, Schriftsteller, geb. 20. Okt. 1861 in Berlin, hieß ursprünglich Witkowski, legte jedoch diesen Namen gleichzeitig mit seinen Angehörigen um das Jahr 1886 wegen eines Familienkonflikts nieder und nannte sich H., während sein… …

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  • 20Harden — Harden, Maximilian, Schriftsteller, geb. 20. Okt. 1861 in Berlin, Herausgeber (seit 1892) der Wochenschrift »Zukunft«, schrieb polit. und soziale Essays u. d. T. »Apostata« (2 Bde., 1892) …

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