Usually means: Increasing resistance to damage, attacks.
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General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. hardening: Merriam-Webster
  2. hardening: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. hardening: Collins English Dictionary
  4. hardening: Vocabulary.com
  5. Hardening, hardening: Wordnik
  6. hardening: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. hardening: Wiktionary
  8. hardening: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. hardening: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. hardening: Dictionary.com
  11. hardening: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  12. Hardening (botany), Hardening (computing), Hardening (metallurgy), Hardening: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Hardening: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. hardening: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. hardening: Rhymezone
  16. Hardening: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. hardening: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. hardening: FreeDictionary.org
  19. hardening: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. hardening: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hardening: bizterms.net
  2. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Hardening: Investopedia
  4. hardening: Legal dictionary
  5. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. hardening: Computer Telephony & Electronics Dictionary and Glossary
  2. Technopedia (No longer online)
  3. hardening: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. hardening: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. hardening: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hardening: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Metal Terminology (No longer online)
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Fastener Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (hardening)

noun:  The process by which something hardens.
noun:  Something which hardens.

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