harden
/ˈhɑːd(ə)n/
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- Open ah vowel
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har - den -> harden
(v) မာကျောစေသည်။ခက်ထန်စေသည်။တင်းမာစေသည်။မာကျောလာသည်။ခက်ထန်လာသည်။တင်းမာလာသည်။ အရေထူသည်။ခံနိုင်ရည်ရှိသည်။
(က) မာကျောစေသည်။ ခက်ထန်စေသည်။ တင်းမာစေသည်။ မာကျောလာသည်။ ခက်ထန်လာသည်။ တင်းမာလာသည်။
The varnish takes a few hours to harden. ❍ He said nothing but I saw his face harden. ❍ Attitudes to the strike have hardened on both sides. ❍ The incident hardened his resolve to leave the company.
(ခ) (esp passive) အရေထူသည်။ ခံနိုင်ရည်ရှိသည်။ a hardened criminal (ie one who shows no regret for her or his crimes) ❍ For her own good, she must harden her heart (against him). ❍ He became hardened to the suffering around him.
❏ hardening n [U, sing]: hardening of the arteries ❍ a hardening of attitudes towards one-parent families.
- This additive hardens the cement in an hour.
- The bread will harden if you don’t cover it.
- [harden someone to something] : Years of reporting on wars hardened them to human suffering.
- His eyes hardened when he saw her.
- Forsyth appeared to have hardened his line on (=his attitude towards) Europe.
- She has hardening of the arteries.
- A hardening of opinion against the treaty
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