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📖 Определения и значения для слова harden

📒 to become or make something become solid or stiff

  • The varnish takes a few hours to harden.
  • harden something a method for hardening and preserving wood
  • Leave the icing to harden in the fridge.

📒 if your voice, face, etc. hardens, or you harden it, it becomes more serious or severe

  • Her face hardened into an expression of hatred.
  • harden something He hardened his voice when he saw she wasn't listening.
  • His expression suddenly hardened into one of strong dislike.

📒 if somebody’s feelings or attitudes harden or somebody/something hardens them, they become more fixed and determined

  • Public attitudes to the strike have hardened.
  • Their suspicions hardened into certainty.
  • Opinion seems to be hardening against the invasion.

📒 to make somebody less kind or less affected by extreme situations

  • Joe sounded different, hardened by the war.
  • They were hardened criminals (= they showed no regret for their crimes).
  • In this job you have to harden your heart to pain and suffering.
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