abhärten — meaning in English
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English meaning
- anneal verb To subject to great heat and then (often slow) cooling, and sometimes reheating and further cooling, for the purpose of rendering less brittle; to temper; to toughen.
- indurate verb To harden or to grow hard.
- season noun One of the four main divisions of the year — spring, summer, autumn, or winter — marked by particular weather patterns.
Senses
abhärten is used for these senses in English:
- anneal (figurative, archaic, or, poetic) To strengthen or harden.
- indurate To make callous or unfeeling.
- inure (transitive) To cause someone to become accustomed to something that requires prolonged or repeated tolerance of one or more unpleasantries. [from 16th c.]
- season (transitive) To habituate, accustom, or inure (someone or something) to a particular use, purpose, or circumstance.
- season (intransitive) To become mature; to grow fit for use; to become adapted to a climate.
anneal — full definition
- verb To subject to great heat and then (often slow) cooling, and sometimes reheating and further cooling, for the purpose of rendering less brittle; to temper; to toughen.
- verb To cool glass slowly, to minimize internal stress.
- verb To burn colors onto a glass or other surface.
- verb To make a double-stranded nucleic acid by pairing a single strand with a complementary strand.
indurate — full definition
- verb To harden or to grow hard.
- verb To make callous or unfeeling.
- verb To inure; to strengthen; to make hardy or robust.