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      hardens
      noun
      A suburb in the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall, West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SK0101).
      A village and civil parish (with a village council) in the Metropolitan Borough of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE0838).
      A town in Hilltops council area, southern New South Wales, Australia.
      A surname.
      A place name:
      Alternative form of hurden (“coarse linen”). [(UK, obsolete) A coarse kind of linen made from hards (also called hurds).]
      verb
      (transitive, ergative) To make something hard or harder.
      (intransitive) To become hard.
      (transitive, figurative) To strengthen.
      (ambitransitive) To become or make (a person or thing) resistant or less sensitive.
      (transitive, computing) To modify (a website or other system) to make it resistant to malicious attacks.
      (intransitive, informal) To get an erection.
      (ambitransitive, phonology) To become or make (a consonant) more fortis; to (cause to) undergo fortition.
      (Slavic phonology) To unpalatalize or velarize.
      Words related to hardens
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