英语词汇“harden”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	harden
释义	hard·en I. \ˈhärd^ən, ˈhȧd^ən\ verb (hardened ; hardened ; hardening \-d(^ə)niŋ\ ; hardens) Etymology: Middle English hardnen, from hard (I) + -nen -en *transitive verb* 1. : to make hard or harder : make firm, tight, or compact: as a. : to convert into solid or stiffer solid form < harden an unsaturated oil by catalytic hydrogenation > b. : to make hard (as steel) by heat treatment, especially heating and quenching in water, brine, or oil c. : to compact (felt) by applying moisture, heat, friction, and pressure d. : to decrease the swelling and raise the melting point of (the emulsion layer of a photographic material) by chemical treatment 2. dialect England a. : to make bold : urge on : encourage b. : to strengthen or confirm especially in disposition, feelings, or a course of action : reinforce < hardened him in his determination to leave at once > < a development that only hardened his conviction that he was right > 3. : to make callous or unfeeling < hardened his heart against me > < its influence did not harden him; he has always risen above cynicism — L.A.Triebel > 4. : to make hardy or robust : inure, toughen < harden troops by long marches > < coarse foods … help to harden the gums — Morris Fishbein > specifically : to inure to cold or other unfavorable environmental conditions (as by gradual exposure to lower temperatures or by decreasing the water supply) — often used with off 5. : to signify that the pronunciation of (a consonant letter) is plosive rather than fricative *intransitive verb* 1. : to become hard or harder : acquire solidity, compactness, or rigidity < mortar hardens by drying > < deviations harden into modes of action — John Dewey > 2. a. : to become confirmed or strengthened (as in feeling, disposition, or course of action) < opposition began to harden — L.S.B.Leakey > b. : to become hard in temper or disposition < it was enough … to set up resistance in her: she hardened — Elizabeth Bowen > c. : to assume an appearance or give an impression of harshness or severity < her face hardened instantly — Margaret Deland > < his face hardened into anger — Liam O'Flaherty > 3. : to become higher or less subject to fluctuations downward : firm, strengthen, stiffen < prices … hardened quickly and drastically — R.F.Yates > < hardening commodity markets > Synonyms: inure, season, acclimatize, acclimate: harden in the sense pertinent here, is to habituate or toughen, usually by degrees, to what generally causes pain or discomfort, or to make slowly callous to what usually affects the feelings < frontier life hardened most men quickly to rough conditions, often to extreme privations > < not yet hardened to the wicked world of international politics — Dexter Perkins > To inure one is to cause one to submit unwillingly, to harden one to patient endurance of the objectionable < they were inured to hardship and unafraid of the wilderness — American Guide Series: Tennessee > < an experienced judge is more or less inured to criticism — W.F.Brown b.1903 > season suggests a gradual bettering of condition or increase in ability brought about by time or experience, a maturing (of a thing) to a sound, reliable condition, or a maturing (of a person or a talent) to a greater efficiency or perfection in a particular activity or calling < old wood, seasoned by the sea wind for many decades — American Guide Series: New York City > < a soldier, seasoned by many campaigns > < the chapters which follow have all been tried out and seasoned with discussion — H.A.Overstreet > To acclimatize or to acclimate is to adapt or to accustom to new and hitherto alien conditions, acclimatize more frequently suggesting a human agency < to help acclimatize the new arrivals to conditions on the continent — Hanama Tasaki > < sheep … acclimatized to the hills — F.D.Smith & Barbara Wilcox > < they were acclimatized now to the cool atmosphere of professional life — Mary Lavin > < I became so well acclimated to German customs — David Fairchild > < acclimating the disabled veteran to the job and adjusting the job to the veteran — Current Biography > II. \ˈ(h)a(r)dən\ noun (-s) Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English herdyng, herden, harden, irregular from herdes, hardes hurds — more at hurds dialect Britain : a fabric made of the coarser parts of flax or hemp
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