kovettaa — meaning in English
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English meaning
Senses
kovettaa is used for these senses in English:
- harden (transitive, ergative) To make something hard or harder.
- harden (ambitransitive) To become or make (a person or thing) resistant or less sensitive.
- harden (ambitransitive, phonology) To become or make (a consonant) more fortis; to (cause to) undergo fortition.
- hydrogenate (chemistry, transitive) To treat something, or react something, with hydrogen; especially to react an unsaturated fat with hydrogen, in the presence of a nickel catalyst, to produce a harder saturated fat.
- petrify To produce rigidity akin to stone.
- petrify (transitive, figurative) To make callous or obdurate; to stupefy; to paralyze; to transform; as by petrification.
- solidify (transitive) To make solid; convert into a solid body.
- solidify (transitive) To concentrate; consolidate, reinforce.
harden — full definition
- verb To become hard, or to make something hard or harder.
- verb To become or make someone more resistant, tough, or emotionally unaffected.
petrify — full definition
- verb To turn to stone: to harden organic matter by permeating with water and depositing dissolved minerals.
- verb To make something stiff and hard, as if it had turned to stone.
- verb To make someone so frightened that they cannot move.
- verb To turn to stone, or to gain a stone-like hardness, as when organic material is transformed by calcareous deposits.
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