abhärten — meaning in English

English meaning

• anneal verb To heat something, usually metal, and then cool it slowly to make it less brittle and stronger.
• indurate verb To become hard, or to make something hard.
• inure verb To make someone used to something unpleasant through repeated or prolonged exposure to it.
• 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

1. verb To heat something, usually metal, and then cool it slowly to make it less brittle and stronger.
2. verb To cool glass down gradually so that stress does not build up inside it.
3. verb To fix colored designs onto glass or another surface using heat.
4. verb (biology) To join two single strands of DNA or RNA together into a double strand.

indurate — full definition

1. verb To become hard, or to make something hard.
2. verb To make someone hard-hearted or unable to feel sympathy.
3. verb To toughen someone up so they can cope with hardship.

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