hardens is a form of:
Harden
noun
- 1.
- (បច្ចេកទេស) ធ្វើអោយកាន់តែរឹង
verb — past tense: hardened ; past participle: hardened ; present participle: hardening ;
- 1.
- (INTRANSITIVE) ឡើងរឹង, ពង្រឹង, ធ្វើអោយជាប់, ឡើងជាប់
- 2.
- (TRANSITIVE) (To make or become hard, to made pitiless) harden syrup ធ្វើអោយរឹង
Example: Mother put the ice cream in the freezer to harden, The sun hardened the clay, we harden clay by baking it, to harden one's heart.harden one's position ពង្រឹង
Example: The varnish takes a few minutes to harden.
ENGLISH MEANING
verb — past tense: hardened ; past participle: hardened ; present participle: hardening ;
- 1.
- (INTRANSITIVE) To become confirmed or strengthened, in either a good or a bad sense.
- 2.
- (TRANSITIVE) To make hard or harder; to make firm or compact; to indurate; as, to harden clay or iron.
- 3.
- (TRANSITIVE) To accustom by labor or suffering to endure with constancy; to strengthen; to stiffen; to inure; also, to confirm in wickedness or shame; to make unimpressionable.
- 4.
- (INTRANSITIVE) To become hard or harder; to acquire solidity, or more compactness; as, mortar hardens by drying.
- 1.
- clot, coagulate, compact, freeze, petrify, solidify, stiffen
- 2.
- acclimate, accustom, discipline, fortify, toughen