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Hardening   /hˈɑrdənɪŋ/  /hˈɑrdnɪŋ/   Listen
Hardening

noun
1.
Abnormal hardening or thickening of tissue.
2.
The process of becoming hard or solid by cooling or drying or crystallization.  Synonyms: curing, set, solidification, solidifying.  "He tested the set of the glue"
3.
The act of making something harder (firmer or tighter or more compact).


Harden

verb
(past & past part. hardened; pres. part. hardening)
1.
Become hard or harder.  Synonym: indurate.
2.
Make hard or harder.  Synonym: indurate.
3.
Harden by reheating and cooling in oil.  Synonym: temper.
4.
Make fit.  Synonym: season.
5.
Cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate.  Synonyms: indurate, inure.



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"Hardening" Quotes from Famous Books



... the scolloped squashes are used while young or in a green state. After the hardening of the skin, or shell, the flesh generally becomes coarse, watery, strong-flavored, and unfit for ...
— The Field and Garden Vegetables of America • Fearing Burr
... is more stimulating to the animal passions, and excites ferocity in both man and animals. If the old argument was valid, that as flesh is much nearer in composition and quality to our own flesh and tissues, it is therefore our best food, we do wrong in coagulating the albuminoids, hardening the muscle substance ...
— The Chemistry of Food and Nutrition • A. W. Duncan
... in the room below, had been hardening her heart against the child after her own fashion. She had answered Mrs. Treherne's questions curtly, rejected the faintest suggestion of money as an insult, and stood eyeing Graham defiantly while the ...
— My Little Lady • Eleanor Frances Poynter
... in the same place, hardening her little heart, whilst big and bitter tears swelled into her eyes, and fell on the soft fur of the ...
— Bebee • Ouida
... The plan was argued, ridiculed, applauded—and sucked of its inspiration by talk. Already the agony of Man was hardening into the cynicism of despair. Nations that had bled together ...
— The Parts Men Play • Arthur Beverley Baxter


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