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Meanings of hardening in English
The process of becoming hard or solid by cooling or drying or crystallization.
Metalwork; metallurgical metalworking process used to increase the hardness of a metal.
Related terms
Process of securing a system by reducing its surface of vulnerability, which is larger when a system performs more functions; in principle a single-function system is more secure than a multipurpose one.
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DERRY'S third night of violence reflected the hardening attitudes across the North.
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Securing the system's services represents a large part of the hardening task.
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My impression is that attitudes are visibly hardening as these events progress.
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The life that both led even in the summer was thoroughly hardening.
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For now, the bombs appear to be hardening opinion against the militants.
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Similar attack could provoke a hardening of stance and would freeze dialogue.
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The anger was for the hardening, the compassion was for the hardeners.
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Israel accused Hamas yesterday of hardening its stance in the Egyptian-brokered talks.
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They left on April 24, with the polar autumn hardening into winter.
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They pulled vigorously, backstroking; the ungainly raft plowed across the hardening current.
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In hardening times abounding with atrocities, let that be a lesson too.
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This of course compels the hardening and contraction of the throat muscles.
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There has been a hardening of support for Independents and smaller parties.
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The king hardening himself as the leech assumed a more lofty tone:
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The horrid hardening of her moral sense had been accomplished by herself.
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Already the agony of Man was hardening into the cynicism of despair.
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