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