harden
hor duhn
- v become hard or harder
The wax hardened - v make hard or harder
The cold hardened the butter - v harden by reheating and cooling in oil
- v make fit
- v cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate
- In politics it can sometimes ripen and harden into a tough kernel of ambition, as the unimaginable slowly becomes transformed into the attainable.
- Advocates worry that publicizing such a blatant and systematic cell harvesting procedure can only harden hearts against the science; in the crude terms of public relations, using .
- If China does harden its stance or take other actions that threaten the talks, it will significantly increase the risk of renewed protests in Tibet, says a go-between, one of .