different between harten vs harden

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?h??(?)t?n/

Verb

harten (third-person singular simple present hartens, present participle hartening, simple past and past participle hartened)

1. Obsolete spelling of hearten

   • Her nourslings did with mutinous uprore / Harten against her selfe, her conquer'd spoile, / Which she had wonne from all the world afore […]

Anagrams

• Tehran, anther, arthen, nather, thenar

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: har?ten
• Rhymes: -?rt?n

Noun

harten

1. Plural form of hart

Noun

harten m or f (plural hartens or harten, diminutive hartentje n)

1. (uncountable, card games) hearts
2. a playing card of the hearts suit

German

Pronunciation

Adjective

harten

1. inflection of hart:
   1. strong genitive masculine/neuter singular
   2. weak/mixed genitive/dative all-gender singular
   3. strong/weak/mixed accusative masculine singular
   4. strong dative plural
   5. weak/mixed all-case plural

Spanish

Verb

harten

1. Third-person plural (ellos, ellas, also used with ustedes^?) present subjunctive form of hartar.
2. (used formally in Spain) Second-person plural (ustedes) imperative form of hartar.
3. (used formally in Spain) Second-person plural present subjunctive form of hartar.

West Frisian

Noun

harten

1. plural of hart

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?h??dn?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?h??dn?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)d?n
• Hyphenation: hard?en

Etymology 1

From Middle English hardenen, equivalent to hard +? -en. Cognate with Danish hærdne (“to harden; cure”), Swedish hårdna (“to harden”), Norwegian herdne (“to harden”), Icelandic harðna (“to harden”).

Verb

harden (third-person singular simple present hardens, present participle hardening, simple past and past participle hardened)

1. (intransitive) To become hard (tough, resistant to pressure).
2. (transitive, ergative) To make something hard or harder (tough, resistant to pressure).
3. (transitive, figuratively) To strengthen.
   • 2002, Jane's International Defense Review (volume 35)

     In view of the system's relatively low cost, the preferred alternative could be for the military user to avail himself of multiple base stations rather than seeking to harden the base station hardware for defense applications.
4. (transitive, computing) To modify (a website or other system) to make it resistant to malicious attacks.
5. (transitive, intransitive, dated) To become or make (a person or thing) resistant or less sensitive.

   Synonym: inure

   • KJV, Exodus 4:21

     When thou goest to return into Egypt, see that thou do all those wonders before Pharaoh, which I have put in thine hand: but I will harden his heart, that he shall not let the people go.

6. (transitive, intransitive, phonology) To become or make (a consonant) more fortis.

Derived terms

• forharden
• hardened
• hardener
• hardening
• harden off
• harden someone's heart
• harden up
• overharden

Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

harden (countable and uncountable, plural hardens)

1. Alternative form of hurden (“coarse linen”)

Anagrams

• Harned, Hendra, hander

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?rd?n

Verb

harden

1. (transitive) To render hard(er), more resistant etc.; to temper metal; to steel nerves

   De geharde veteranen verbeten de pijn zonder jammeren.

   The hardened veterans bore the pain without whining.

2. (transitive) to endure, bear, stand, tolerate

Inflection

Synonyms

• (to endure) uithouden, verdragen

Noun

harden

1. Plural form of harde