härten — meaning in English

English meaning

• anneal verb To heat something, usually metal, and then cool it slowly to make it less brittle and stronger.
• harden verb To become hard, or to make something hard or harder.
• hardening noun The process of becoming, or making something, harder or tougher.
• indurate verb To become hard, or to make something hard.
• set verb To put something in a particular place or position.

Senses

härten is used for these senses in English:

• anneal (figurative, archaic, or, poetic) To strengthen or harden.
• harden (intransitive) To become hard.
• hardening The process by which something hardens.
• indurate To harden or to grow hard.
• set (transitive, dated) To cause to stop or stick; to obstruct; to fasten to a spot.

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.

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.

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