harden

v. கெட்டியாக்கு, கடினமாக்கு, கெட்டியாகு, கடினமாகு, இறுகு, வயிரங்கொள், உணர்ச்சியறச்செய், உணர்ச்சியற்றுப் போ, வலிமையுள்ளதாக்கு, வலிமையுள்ளதாகு, தீமை செய்வதில் காழ்ப்பேறு.

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Hard"en, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hardened; p. pr. & vb. n. Hardening.] Etym: [OE. hardnen, hardenen.] 1. To make hard or harder; to make firm or compact; to indurate; as, to harden clay or iron. 2. To accustom by labor or suffering to endure with constancy; to strengthen; to stiffen; to inure; also, to confirm in wickedness or shame; to make unimpressionable. "Harden not your heart." Ps. xcv. 8. I would harden myself in sorrow. Job vi. 10. Hard"en, v. i. 1. To become hard or harder; to acquire solidity, or more compactness; as, mortar hardens by drying. The deliberate judgment of those who knew him [A. Lincoln] has hardened into tradition. The Century. 2. To become confirmed or strengthened, in either a good or a bad sense. They, hardened more by what might most reclaim. Milton.