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1. Oxford American Dictionary

   harden

   • IPA[ˈhärd(ə)n]

   美式

   • v.
     make or become hard or harder；make or become more severe and less sympathetic

   • verb: harden, 3rd person present: hardens, gerund or present participle: hardening, past tense: hardened, past participle: hardened

2. • 釋義
   • 片語

   v.

   動詞

   • 1. make or become hard or harder wait for the glue to harden brick is made of moist clay hardened by heat 同義詞 solidify, set, become hard, become solid, congeal, ... 更多clot, coagulate, stiffen, thicken, cake, freeze, bake, crystallize, strengthen, reinforce, technicalanneal, vulcanize, ossify, petrify, rareindurate, inspissate, gelatinize反義詞 liquefy
   • ▪ make or become more severe and less sympathetic she hardened her heart
   • ▪ make or become tougher and more clearly defined suspicion hardened into certainty 同義詞 toughen, desensitize, inure, make insensitive, make tough, ... 更多make unfeeling, case-harden, harden someone's heart, deaden, numb, benumb, anesthetize, brutalize, make callous, rareindurate反義詞 soften
   • ▪ (of prices of stocks, commodities, etc.) rise and remain steady at a higher level as oil prices hardened from their recent lows, the US dollar fell

   片語

   • harden off