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harden (n.)
c. 1200, transitive, "make (something) hard," from
hard
(adj.) +
-en
(1). Intransitive meaning "to become hard" is late 14c. The earlier verb was simply
hard
, from Old English
heardian
. Related:
Hardened
;
hardening
.
