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1. To make hard or harder; to make firm or compact; to indurate; as, to harden clay or iron.
2. To accustom by labour 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." "I would harden myself in sorrow." (Job vi. 10)
Origin: OE. Hardnen, hardenen.
(01 Mar 1998)
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