harden

/hˈɑɹdən/ · 2 syllables

Meaning

verb

1. become hard or harder
   “The wax hardened”
2. make hard or harder
   “The cold hardened the butter”
3. harden by reheating and cooling in oil
   “temper steel”
4. make fit
   “This trip will season even the hardiest traveller”
5. cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate
   “He was inured to the cold”

Synonyms for harden

• indurate
• temper
• season
• inure

Antonyms of harden

• soften

Words that rhyme with harden

• garden
• pardon
• arden
• barden
• carden
• darden
• janardhan
• lustgarten
• marden
• mardon
• parden
• rardon
• teagarden
• teegarden
• varden
• winegarden
• wyngaarden