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harten

/ˈhɑː(ɹ)tən/

harten is the obsolete spelling of hearten.

Meaning of hearten

Verb

hearten (third-person singular simple present heartens, present participle heartening, simple past and past participle heartened)

  1. (transitive) To give heart to; to encourage, urge on, cheer, give confidence to.
    • hearten the crowd
    Antonyms:
    dishearten

Forms of harten

third-person singular presenthartens
present participlehartening
past participlehartened
pasthartened

Words that rhyme with harten

Questions about harten

What is harten the obsolete spelling of?
Harten is the obsolete spelling of hearten.
How do you pronounce harten?
Harten is pronounced /ˈhɑː(ɹ)tən/.

Words near harten in the dictionary

  1. hartebeesten
  2. hartebeests
  3. Hartel
  4. Hartels
  5. hartely
  6. harten
  7. hartened
  8. hartening
  9. hartens
  10. Hartenstein
  11. Hartensteins

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Adapted from Wiktionary: harten (page history and authors); hearten (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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