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enhardening

enhardening is the present participle and gerund of enharden.

Meaning of enharden

Verb

enharden (third-person singular simple present enhardens, present participle enhardening, simple past and past participle enhardened)

  1. (transitive) To harden; to render hard.
  2. (transitive) To fortify against adversity.

Questions about enhardening

What is enhardening the present participle and gerund of?
Enhardening is the present participle and gerund of enharden.

Words near enhardening in the dictionary

  1. enharboured
  2. enharbouring
  3. enharbours
  4. enharden
  5. enhardened
  6. enhardening
  7. enhardens
  8. enharmonic
  9. enharmonical
  10. enharmonically
  11. enharmonicism

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Adapted from Wiktionary: enhardening (page history and authors); enharden (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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