Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to harden
Participle: hardened
Gerund: hardening
Indicative
Present
| I | harden |
| you | harden |
| he;she;it | hardens |
| we | harden |
| you | harden |
| they | harden |
Perfect
| I | have hardened |
| you | have hardened |
| he;she;it | has hardened |
| we | have hardened |
| you | have hardened |
| they | have hardened |
Past
| I | hardened |
| you | hardened |
| he;she;it | hardened |
| we | hardened |
| you | hardened |
| they | hardened |
Pluperfect
| I | had hardened |
| you | had hardened |
| he;she;it | had hardened |
| we | had hardened |
| you | had hardened |
| they | had hardened |
Future
| I | will harden |
| you | will harden |
| he;she;it | will harden |
| we | will harden |
| you | will harden |
| they | will harden |
Future Perfect
| I | will have hardened |
| you | will have hardened |
| he;she;it | will have hardened |
| we | will have hardened |
| you | will have hardened |
| they | will have hardened |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | harden |
| you | harden |
| he;she;it | harden |
| we | harden |
| you | harden |
| they | harden |
Perfect
| I | have hardened |
| you | have hardened |
| he;she;it | have hardened |
| we | have hardened |
| you | have hardened |
| they | have hardened |
Imperfect
| I | hardened |
| you | hardened |
| he;she;it | hardened |
| we | hardened |
| you | hardened |
| they | hardened |
Pluperfect
| I | had hardened |
| you | had hardened |
| he;she;it | had hardened |
| we | had hardened |
| you | had hardened |
| they | had hardened |
Conditional
Present
| I | would harden |
| you | would harden |
| he;she;it | would harden |
| we | would harden |
| you | would harden |
| they | would harden |
Perfect
| I | would have hardened |
| you | would have hardened |
| he;she;it | would have hardened |
| we | would have hardened |
| you | would have hardened |
| they | would have hardened |
Imperative
| you | harden |
| we | Let's harden |
| you | harden |
Verbs conjugated like 'harden'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'harden'
garden,
harken,
harten,
warden,
badden,
balden,
barken,
burden,
careen,
darken,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- harden
- anneal, indurate
- to make strong or stronger
- anneal, brace, build up, confirm, enstrengthen, fortify, indurate, intend, invigorate, munite, nerve, roborate, steel, strength, strengthen, thicken
- to make something hard or harder
- anneal, indurate, obdurate, sclerotise, solidify, steel, stiffen, temper
- solidify
- indurate, fossilize, cake, ossify, fix, concrete, petrify, set
- toughen
- accustom, acclimate, brace, acclimatize, confirm, discipline, fortify, habituate
Antonyms
- to make something hard or harder
- soften
- to make something soft or softer
- soften
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English hardenen, equivalent to hard + -en. Cognate with Danish hærdne (“to harden; cure”), Swedish hårdna (“to harden”), Norwegian herdne (“to harden”), Icelandic harðna (“to harden”). See: Danish '
hærdne', Swedish '
hårdna', Icelandic '
harðna'.
Sample Sentences
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[...] yes ! These critters ain't like white folks, you know; they gets over things, only manage right. Now, they say, ” said Haley, assuming a candid and confidential air, “ that this kind o ’ trade is hardening to the feelings; but I never found it so. Fact is, I never could do things up the way some fellers manage the business. I 've seen ’ em as would pull a woman's child out of her arms, and set him up [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] or gibbet, that might be deemed a good elevation for the purpose. My reason is as well convinced that these gentry were as utterly worthless and debauched villains, as it is that the laws and jails hardened them in their evil courses, or that their wonderful escapes were effected by the prison-turnkeys who, in those admirable days, had always been felons themselves, and were, to the last, their [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] and shady trees; every house is the whitest of the white; every Venetian blind the greenest of the green; every fine day 's sky the bluest of the blue. A sharp dry wind and a slight frost had so hardened the roads when we alighted at Worcester, that their furrowed tracks were like ridges of granite. There was the usual aspect of newness on every object, of course. All the buildings looked as if [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] his affairs, in short absences; and, in his view, the first, second, and third requisite for that place, was _hardness_. Legree made up his mind, that, as Tom was not hard to his hand, he would harden him forthwith; and some few weeks after Tom had been on the place, he determined to commence the process.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] he first bought her, she was, as she said, a woman delicately bred; and then he crushed her, without scruple, beneath the foot of his brutality. But, as time, and debasing influences, and despair, hardened womanhood within her, and waked the fires of fiercer passions, she had become in a measure his mistress, and he alternately tyrannized over and dreaded her.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)