Hardening

Definition

harden /'hɑ:dn/ v (က) မာေက်ာေစသည္။ ခက္ထန္ေစသည္။ တင္းမာေစသည္။ မာေက်ာလာသည္။ ခက္ထန္လာသည္။ တင္းမာလာသည္။ 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) အေရထူသည္။ ခံႏိုင္ရည္ရိွသည္။ 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.

Examples

1. This additive hardens the cement in an hour.
2. The bread will harden if you don’t cover it.
3. [harden someone to something] : Years of reporting on wars hardened them to human suffering.
4. His eyes hardened when he saw her.
5. Forsyth appeared to have hardened his line on (=his attitude towards) Europe.
6. She has hardening of the arteries.
7. A hardening of opinion against the treaty