And so the method that works is treading down the snow to harden it, making blocks and piling them up.
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Harden
//ˈhɑɹdn̩//
Synonyms for "harden" (95 found)
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Related words (47)
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1 entriesTranslations
112 translations across 35 languages.
Bulgarian
3 entries- втвърдявам verb (to make hard(er))
- втвърдявам се verb (to become hard)
- закалявам verb (to make hard(er))
Catalan
2 entries- endurir verb (to make hard(er))
- endurir-se verb (to become hard)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 硬化 verb (to become hard)
- 硬化 verb (to make hard(er))
Czech
4 entries- tvrdit verb (to make hard(er))
- tvrdnout verb (to become hard)
- vytvrdit verb (to make hard(er))
- zatvrdit se verb (to become or make less sensitive)
Dutch
4 entries- hard worden verb (to become hard)
- harden verb (to make hard(er))
- verharden verb (to become hard)
- verharden verb (to make hard(er))
Esperanto
2 entries- malmoligi verb (to make hard(er))
- malmoliĝi verb (to become hard)
Finnish
4 entries- kovettaa verb (to make hard(er))
- kovettaa verb (to become or make less sensitive)
- kovettua verb (to become hard)
- lujittaa verb (to make hard(er))
French
2 entries- durcir verb (to become hard)
- endurcir verb (to make hard(er))
Galician
2 entries- endurecer verb (to become hard)
- endurecer verb (to make hard(er))
Georgian
3 entries- გამაგრება verb (to become hard)
- გამყარება verb (to become hard)
- განმტკიცება verb (to become hard)
German
2 entries- härten verb (to become hard)
- härten verb (to make hard(er))
Gothic
2 entries- 𐌲𐌰𐌳𐌰𐌿𐌱𐌾𐌰𐌽 verb (to become or make less sensitive)
- 𐌲𐌰𐌷𐌰𐍂𐌳𐌾𐌰𐌽 verb (to make hard(er))
Greek
3 entries- σκληρύνω verb (to become hard)
- σκληρύνω verb (to make hard(er))
- σκληρύνω verb (to become or make less sensitive)
Hungarian
4 entries- keményedik verb (to become hard)
- keményít verb (to make hard(er))
- megkeményedik verb (to become hard)
- megkeményít verb (to make hard(er))
Ido
1 entries- hardeskar verb (to become hard)
Irish
4 entries- cruaigh verb (to become hard)
- cruaigh verb (to make hard(er))
- cruaigh verb (to become or make less sensitive)
- sioc verb (to become hard)
Italian
2 entries- indurirsi verb (to become hard)
- indurirsi verb (to make hard(er))
Latin
4 entries- dūrescō verb (to become hard)
- dūrō verb (to make hard(er))
- firmo verb (to become or make less sensitive)
- firmō verb (to make hard(er))
Luxembourgish
1 entries- häerden verb (to become hard)
Marathi
1 entries- कडक होणे verb (to become hard)
Māori
4 entries- totoka verb (to become hard)
- whakapakeke verb (to become or make less sensitive)
- whakapūioio verb (to make hard(er))
- whakauka verb (to make hard(er))
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- herde verb (to become hard)
- herde verb (to make hard(er))
Occitan
4 entries- durcir verb (to become hard)
- durcir verb (to make hard(er))
- endurcir verb (to make hard(er))
- s'endurcir verb (to become hard)
Polish
4 entries- hartować verb (to become or make less sensitive)
- stwardnieć verb (to become hard)
- twardnieć verb (to become hard)
- utwardzać verb (to make hard(er))
Portuguese
2 entries- endurecer verb (to become hard)
- endurecer verb (to make hard(er))
Quechua
3 entries- chuchuyay verb (to become hard)
- rumiyay verb (to become hard)
- sinchiyay verb (to become hard)
Romanian
2 entries- întări verb (to become hard)
- întări verb (to make hard(er))
Russian
4 entries- затверде́ть verb (to become hard)
- ожесточить verb (to become or make less sensitive)
- ожесточиться verb (to become or make less sensitive)
- тверде́ть verb (to become hard)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- otvrdnuti verb (to become hard)
- stvrdnuti verb (to become hard)
- отврднути verb (to become hard)
- стврднути verb (to become hard)
Spanish
2 entries- endurecer verb (to become hard)
- endurecer verb (to make hard(er))
Thai
1 entries- แข็งตัว verb (to become hard)
Tok Pisin
3 entries- strongim verb (to make hard(er))
- strongim verb (figurative: to strengthen)
- strongim verb (to become or make less sensitive)
Turkish
2 entries- sertleşmek verb (to become hard)
- sertleştirmek verb (to make hard(er))
Ukrainian
4 entries- затве́рднути verb (to become hard)
- затверді́ти verb (to become hard)
- тве́рднути verb (to become hard)
- тверді́ти verb (to become hard)
Walloon
1 entries- aduri verb (to become hard)
Sample sentences
17 total sentences available.
At night, I put my bell pepper plants at the open window, so they can harden off a bit before I plant them outside, cause now they still have such thin stems.
Source: tatoeba (397484)
Brother men who live after us, Harden not your hearts against us.
Source: tatoeba (679995)
Harden up.
Source: tatoeba (1124055)
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.