harden

== English == === Pronunciation === (General American) IPA(key): /ˈhɑɹdn̩/ (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈhɑːdn̩/ Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)dən Hyphenation: hard‧en === Etymology 1 === From Middle English hardenen, equivalent to hard +‎ -en. Cognate with Danish hærdne (“to harden; cure”), Swedish hårdna (“to harden”), Norwegian herdne (“to harden”), Icelandic harðna (“to harden”). ==== Verb ==== harden (third-person singular simple present hardens, present participle hardening, simple past and past participle hardened) (intransitive) To become hard. (transitive, ergative) To make something hard or harder. (transitive, figurative) To strengthen. (transitive, computing) To modify (a website or other system) to make it resistant to malicious attacks. (ambitransitive) To become or make (a person or thing) resistant or less sensitive. Synonym: inure KJV, Exodus 4:21 When thou goest to return into Egypt, see that thou do all those wonders before Pharaoh, which I have put in thine hand: but I will harden his heart, that he shall not let the people go. (intransitive, informal) To get an erection. (ambitransitive, phonology) To become or make (a consonant) more fortis; to (cause to) undergo fortition. (Slavic phonology) To unpalatalize or velarize. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 2 === ==== Noun ==== harden (countable and uncountable, plural hardens) Alternative form of hurden (“coarse linen”). === Anagrams === Harned, hander, Hendra, Henard == Dutch == === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -ɑrdən === Etymology 1 === From Middle Dutch harden, herden, from Old Dutch *herden, from Proto-West Germanic *hardijan, from Proto-Germanic *hardijaną. ==== Verb ==== harden (transitive) to render hard(er), more resistant etc.; to temper metal; to steel nerves De geharde veteranen verbeten de pijn zonder jammeren. ― The hardened veterans bore the pain without whining. (transitive) to endure, bear, stand, tolerate Synonyms: ondergaan, uitstaan, uithouden, velen, verdragen Deze stank is niet te harden. ― This stench is unbearable. ===== Conjugation ===== ===== Related terms ===== === Etymology 2 === See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. ==== Noun ==== harden plural of harde