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overharden

overharden verb: to harden too much.

Verb

overharden (third-person singular simple present overhardens, present participle overhardening, simple past and past participle overhardened)

  1. To harden too much.
    • [I]t has acquir'd ſuch a hardneſs, that being throvvn againſt the floor it vvould rebound, and vvas brittle like over-harden'd Steel.1661, Robert Boyle, “[Some Specimens of an Attempt to Make Chymical Experiments Useful to Illustrate the Notions of the Corpuscular Philosophy.] The History of Fluidity and Firmnesse. The Second...

Forms of overharden

third-person singular presentoverhardens
present participleoverhardening
past participleoverhardened
pastoverhardened

Origin of overharden

From over- + harden.

Questions about overharden

What does overharden mean?
Overharden means to harden too much.
What part of speech is overharden?
Overharden is a verb.
What is the past tense of overharden?
The past tense of overharden is overhardened.

Words near overharden in the dictionary

  1. overharassed
  2. overharasses
  3. overharassing
  4. overharassment
  5. overhard
  6. overharden
  7. overhardened
  8. overhardening
  9. overhardens
  10. overhardly
  11. overhardness

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