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Synonyms for hardening
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : hahr-dn-ing |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈhɑr dn ɪŋ |
Définition of hardening
Origin :- c.1200 (replacing Old English heardian) "to make (something) hard," from hard + -en (1). Meaning "to become hard" is late 14c. Related: Hardened (figurative sense of "unfeeling" is from late 14c.); hardening.
- noun thickening
- They were street boys; their lives had been spent in a hardening atmosphere.
- Extract from : « Ester Ried Yet Speaking » by Isabella Alden
- He was hardening his throat, and so slept with a wet towel about it.
- Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart
- Blessed ignorance of the hardening influences of the coming years!
- Extract from : « The First Violin » by Jessie Fothergill
- Cf. Joseph and his brethren for this hardening of his heart.
- Extract from : « Cyropaedia » by Xenophon
- The whole year round the thorn has been hardening and sharpening.
- Extract from : « Parables of the Cross » by I. Lilias Trotter
- Fao's hackles were very evidently on the rise; Delcamp's face was hardening.
- Extract from : « The Galaxy Primes » by Edward Elmer Smith
- "If she moves she is betrayed," he thought with hardening heart.
- Extract from : « The Tyranny of the Dark » by Hamlin Garland
- Sometimes I seem to myself to be hardening into stone, body and soul.
- Extract from : « In Convent Walls » by Emily Sarah Holt
- His gristle is hardening into something like his stern old father's backbone.
- Extract from : « The Red Acorn » by John McElroy
- The hardening process had been, if anything, all too complete.
- Extract from : « The Sign of the Spider » by Bertram Mitford
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