to harden
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3.9
- verb
- /ˈhɑrdən/
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endurecerse
- Yet we avert our eyes... hardening our hearts to their pleas.
- become hardened
- a hardened attitude
- hardened by life
And, you know, it hardens you for the next thing, right?
- And, you know, it hardens you for the next thing, right?
- Actually, I think it's the softer sciences that are going to harden up.
- So I was battle hardened from all these experiences from a small kid in gambling.
- I used to trust people too, but sometimes things happen that change the way you look at the world, that harden you as a person.
- They're, they're obviously they're grizzly things and yeah, but once you've once you've been to one or two, kind of you become a bit sort of, you know, hardened to that as well.
- But the question we we had to ask ourselves, and, and I did all the time, is at what point do you become hardened to risk and the cost of risk?
- And we're also, we're hardened to not hardened, but we're used to a lack of international struggle.
- It makes you hardens you, you know, and that's why you see a lot of players go out alone in lower league clubs to get to, to become a man, to be robust.
Examples
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You have to harden your heart in order to do such a horrible thing.
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Time has had the effect of hardening positions and making the prospect of peace more remote.
Academic text (2008) -
I used to trust people too, but sometimes things happen that change the way you look at the world, that harden you as a person.
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And, you know, it hardens you for the next thing, right?
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She looks older because this lifestyle hardens you.
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Through a mechanism of self-fulfilling prophecy, this group can easily turn into hardened system opponents.
Academic text (2011) -
Thus far, diplomacy and economic sanctions only seem to have hardened Iran's resolve to develop a nuclear capability.
Academic text (2011) -
And the situation will get worse because communal atrocities have hardened sectarian affiliations.
Academic text (2006) -
Mrs. Brown regarded the boy's scowling face, his slumped shoulder, his work-hardened hands trembling on his thighs.
Fiction book (1992) -
As he faced the harsh realities of life, he began to harden himself against future disappointments.
Synonyms
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6.3
To make people and animals feel less strong reactions to pain, fear or loud sounds, often by repeated exposure
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8.9
Become used to something unpleasant so it no longer bothers you
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6.7
To get used to something new so it no longer seems strange
To make someone or something less able to feel pain and sadness from long hard experience
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Etymology
Harden comes from the old English word hard meaning 'not soft' and the ending -en that means 'make'. So to harden a person is to 'make them hard', explaining why the word means becoming less sensitive or more used to unpleasant things.