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How to pronounce “harden”
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Pronunciation guide for harden
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of harden with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- An Extreme Weather Report From America’s Weatherman
to have to harden these sites against climate change.
- Definition summary
- (intransitive) To become hard.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce harden
An Extreme Weather Report From America’s Weatherman

to have to harden these sites against climate change.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “harden”
Meaning
- [Verb]
- (intransitive) To become hard.
- (transitive, ergative) To make something hard or harder.
- (transitive, figurative) To strengthen.
- (transitive, computing) To modify (a website or other system) to make it resistant to malicious attacks.
- (ambitransitive) To become or make (a person or thing) resistant or less sensitive.
- (intransitive, informal) To get an erection.
- (ambitransitive, phonology) To become or make (a consonant) more fortis; to (cause to) undergo fortition.
- (Slavic phonology) To unpalatalize or velarize.
- [Noun]
- Alternative form of hurden (“coarse linen”).
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