kovettaa — meaning in English

English meaning

• harden verb To become hard, or to make something hard or harder.
• petrify verb To turn to stone: to harden organic matter by permeating with water and depositing dissolved minerals.
• solidify verb To become solid, or to make something firm and solid.

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

1. verb To become hard, or to make something hard or harder.
2. verb To become or make someone more resistant, tough, or emotionally unaffected.

petrify — full definition

1. verb To turn to stone: to harden organic matter by permeating with water and depositing dissolved minerals.
2. verb To produce rigidity akin to stone.
3. verb To immobilize with fright.
4. verb To become stone, or of a stony hardness, as organic matter by calcareous deposits.

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