| 释义 |
Noun: hardening haa(r)duning- Abnormal hardening or thickening of tissue
- The process of becoming hard or solid by cooling or drying or crystallization
"the hardening of concrete" - solidifying, solidification, set, curing - The act of making something harder (firmer or tighter or more compact)
Verb: harden haa(r)d(u)n- Become hard or harder
"The wax hardened" - indurate - Make hard or harder
"The cold hardened the butter" - indurate - Harden by reheating and cooling in oil
- temper - Make fit
- season - Cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate
- inure, indurate, enure
Derived forms: hardenings Type of: accustom, action, activity, change, change of integrity, habituate, modify, natural action, natural process, symptom, toughen Antonym: soften Part of: plastination Encyclopedia: Harden, New South Wales Harden, Australia Harden Harden, West Yorkshire Harden, West Midlands Harden, Walsall Hardening |