Usually means: Make or become more severe.
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  1. harshen: Merriam-Webster
  2. harshen: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. harshen: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. harshen: Collins English Dictionary
  5. harshen: Vocabulary.com
  6. harshen: Wordnik
  7. harshen: Wiktionary
  8. harshen: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. harshen: Dictionary.com
  10. harshen: Rhymezone
  11. harshen: FreeDictionary.org
  12. harshen: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. harshen: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. harshen: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (harshen)

▸ verb:  (transitive) To make, or to become harsh; render hard and rough.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To render peevish, morose, or austere.

Similar:
brutalise, asperate, harsh, Harden, rough, coarsen, roughen, unharden, induratize, harsh one's mellow, more...

Opposite:
soften, gentle, soothe, mitigate, moderate

Types:
make harsh, make severe, make rough, make rugged, more...

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Similar:
brutalise, asperate, harsh, Harden, rough, coarsen, roughen, unharden, induratize, harsh one's mellow, more...

Opposite:
soften, gentle, soothe, mitigate, moderate

Types:
make harsh, make severe, make rough, make rugged, more...



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