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harden |
hardenbergia |
hardenbergia comnptoniana |
hardened |
hardener |
hardening
| hardening of the arteries
| harder
| harderian
| hardfern
| hardfisted
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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun hardening has 3 senses
- hardening(n = noun.state) Array - abnormal hardening or thickening of tissue; Array is a kind of symptom
- hardening(n = noun.process) curing, set, solidification, solidifying - the process of becoming hard or solid by cooling or drying or crystallization; "the hardening of concrete"; "he tested the set of the glue" has particulars: congealment, congelation
- hardening(n = noun.act) Array - the act of making something harder (firmer or tighter or more compact); Array is a kind of change of integrity
has particulars: callosity, callus, calcification
is a kind of action, activity, natural action, natural process
is a part of plastination
Derived form verb harden1
has particulars: annealing, tempering
Derived form verb harden2
CIDE DICTIONARY
hardening, n.
- Making hard or harder. [1913 Webster]
- That which hardens, as a material used for converting the surface of iron into steel. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
hardening, n.
1 the process or an instance of becoming hard.
2 (in full hardening of the arteries) Med. = ARTERIOSCLEROSIS.
1 the process or an instance of becoming hard.
2 (in full hardening of the arteries) Med. = ARTERIOSCLEROSIS.
THESAURUS
hardening
abidingness, acclimation, acclimatization, accommodation, accustoming, adaption, adjustment, agglutination, arteriosclerosis, atherosclerosis, breaking, breaking-in, calcification, callusing, case hardening, changelessness, clumping, clustering, compression, concentration, concretion, condensation, conditioning, consolidation, constancy, cornification, crystallization, densification, domestication, durability, durableness, duration, endurance, familiarization, firming, firmness, fixedness, fortification, fossilization, frozenness, granulation, habituation, hornification, housebreaking, immobility, immovability, immovableness, immutability, induration, indurative, inurement, invariability, invariableness, inveteracy, invigoration, lapidification, lastingness, lithification, long standing, naturalization, orientation, ossification, permanence, permanency, perpetualness, persistence, persistency, petrifaction, petrifactive, petrification, petrifying, quiescence, refreshment, reinforcement, reinvigoration, restrengthening, revivification, rigidity, sclerosis, seasoning, setting, solidification, solidity, stability, standing, stasis, steadfastness, steeling, stiffening, strengthening, taming, tempering, torpor, toughening, training, unchangeability, unchangingness, vitrifaction, vitrificationROGET THESAURUS
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Impiety
N impiety, sin, irreverence, profaneness, profanity, profanation, blasphemy, desecration, sacrilege, scoffing, hypocrisy, pietism, cant, pious fraud, lip devotion, lip service, lip reverence, misdevotion, formalism, austerity, sanctimony, sanctimoniousness, pharisaism, precisianism, sabbatism, sabbatarianism, odium theologicum, sacerdotalism, bigotry blue laws, hardening, backsliding, declension, perversion, reprobation, sinner, scoffer, blasphemer, sacrilegist, sabbath breaker, worldling, hypocrite, Tartufe, Mawworm, bigot, saint, Pharisee, sabbatarian, formalist, methodist, puritan, pietist, precisian, religionist, devotee, ranter, fanatic, juramentado, the wicked, the evil, the unjust, the reprobate, sons of men, sons of Belial, the wicked one, children of darkness, impious, irreligious, desecrating, profane, irreverent, sacrilegious, blasphemous, un-hallowed, un-sanctified, un-regenerate, hardened, perverted, reprobate, hypocritical, canting, pietistical, sanctimonious, unctuous, pharisaical, overrighteous, righteous over much, bigoted, fanatical, priest-ridden, under the mask of religion, under the cloak of religion, under the pretense of religion, under the form of religion, under the guise of religion, giovane santo diavolo vecchio.
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