harden
Example Sentences
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Avalanche rescues can be challenging, as loose and fluffy snow consolidates quickly and hardens like concrete, making it difficult for those buried underneath to receive oxygen.
From Los Angeles Times
Aggressive and revolutionary from the start, Iran’s regime has hardened into what the historian Ali M. Ansari calls an “Islamic security state.”
As migrant numbers grow, public attitudes appear to be hardening.
From Barron's
By about 6pm, tension had hardened both inside the factory and on the street.
From BBC
But since his resignation last weekend, Treasury concerns were said to have hardened.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
