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casehardening

casehardening is the present participle and gerund of caseharden.

Meaning of caseharden

Verb

caseharden (third-person singular simple present casehardens, present participle casehardening, simple past and past participle casehardened)

  1. To harden the surface of iron or steel by infusing carbon into the surface layer.
  2. (broadly) To make insensitive to hardship.

Questions about casehardening

What is casehardening the present participle and gerund of?
Casehardening is the present participle and gerund of caseharden.

Words near casehardening in the dictionary

  1. casefuls
  2. casefy
  3. casefying
  4. caseharden
  5. casehardened
  6. casehardening
  7. casehardens
  8. caseic
  9. caseid
  10. caseids
  11. caseification

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Adapted from Wiktionary: casehardening (page history and authors); caseharden (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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