Usually means: Make tougher or more resilient.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. Harden, harden: Merriam-Webster
  2. harden: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. harden: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. harden: Collins English Dictionary
  5. harden: Vocabulary.com
  6. Harden, harden: Wordnik
  7. harden: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Harden, harden: Wiktionary
  9. harden: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. harden: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. harden: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Harden, harden: Dictionary.com
  13. harden: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Harden (crater), Harden: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Harden: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. harden: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. harden: Rhymezone
  18. harden: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. harden: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. harden: FreeDictionary.org
  21. harden: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. harden: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. harden: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. harden: Legal dictionary

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. harden: Webster's New World Hacker Dictionary
  2. harden: Hacking Lexicon
  3. harden: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. harden: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. harden: Idioms

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See hardened as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (intransitive) To become hard.
verb:  (transitive, ergative) To make something hard or harder.
verb:  (transitive, figurative) To strengthen.
verb:  (transitive, computing) To modify (a website or other system) to make it resistant to malicious attacks.
verb:  (ambitransitive) To become or make (a person or thing) resistant or less sensitive.
verb:  (intransitive, informal) To get an erection.
verb:  (ambitransitive, phonology) To become or make (a consonant) more fortis; to (cause to) undergo fortition.
verb:  (Slavic phonology) To unpalatalize or velarize.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  A place name:
noun:  A suburb in the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall, West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SK0101).
noun:  A village and civil parish (with a village council) in the Metropolitan Borough of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE0838).
noun:  A town in Hilltops council area, southern New South Wales, Australia.
noun:  Alternative form of hurden (“coarse linen”) [(UK, dialect) A coarse kind of linen made from hurds.]

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