Synonyms of the word

harden

• v. (intransitive) To become hard (tough, resistant to pressure).
• v. (transitive, ergative) To make something hard or harder (tough, resistant to pressure).
• v. (transitive, computing) To modify (a website or other system) to make it resistant to malicious attacks.
• v. (transitive, dated) To become or make (a person or thing) resistant or less sensitive.
• v. (phonology) To become or make (a consonant) more fortis.

accustom

• v. (intransitive) To make familiar by use; to cause to accept; to habituate, familiarize, or inure. [+ to…
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To be wont.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To cohabit.
• n. (obsolete) Custom.

change

• v. (intransitive) To become something different.
• v. (transitive, ergative) To make something into something different.
• v. (transitive) To replace.
• v. (intransitive) To replace one's clothing.
• v. (intransitive) To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.).
• v. (archaic) To exchange.
• v. (transitive) To change hand while riding (a horse).
• n. (countable) The process of becoming different.
• n. (uncountable) Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
• n. (countable) A replacement, e.g. a change of clothes.
• n. (uncountable) Money given back when a customer hands over more than the exact price of an item.
• n. (uncountable) Coins (as opposed to paper money).
• n. (countable) A transfer between vehicles.
• n. (baseball) A change-up pitch.
• n. (campanology) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
• n. (dated) A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; an exchange.
• n. (Scotland, dated) A public house; an alehouse.

habituate

• v. To make accustomed; to accustom; to familiarize.
• v. To settle as an inhabitant.

indurate

• v. To harden or to grow hard.
• v. To make callous or unfeeling.
• v. To inure; to strengthen; to make hardy or robust.
• adj. Hardened, obstinate, unfeeling, callous.

inure

• v. (transitive) To cause (someone) to become accustomed (to something); to habituate.
• v. (intransitive, chiefly law) To take effect, to be operative.

modify

• v. (transitive) To make partial changes to.
• v. (intransitive) To be or become modified.

season

• n. Each of the four divisions of a year: spring, summer, autumn (fall) and winter.
• n. A part of a year when something particular happens.
• n. (obsolete) That which gives relish; seasoning.
• n. (cricket) The period over which a series of Test matches are played.
• n. (Canada, US, broadcasting) A group of episodes of a television or radio program broadcast in regular intervals…
• n. (obsolete) An extended, undefined period of time.
• v. (transitive) To flavour food with spices, herbs or salt.
• v. (transitive) To make fit for any use by time or habit; to habituate; to accustom; to inure.
• v. (transitive) Hence, to prepare by drying or hardening, or removal of natural juices.
• v. (intransitive) To become mature; to grow fit for use; to become adapted to a climate.
• v. (intransitive) To become dry and hard, by the escape of the natural juices, or by being penetrated with…
• v. (obsolete) To copulate with; to impregnate.

temper

• n. A tendency to be of a certain type of mood.
• n. State of mind.
• n. The state of any compound substance which results from the mixture of various ingredients; due mixture…
• n. (obsolete) Constitution of body; the mixture or relative proportion of the four humours: blood, choler,…
• n. The heat treatment to which a metal or other material has been subjected; a material that has undergone…
• n. Calmness of mind; moderation; equanimity; composure.
• n. The state of a metal or other substance, especially as to its hardness, produced by some process of heating…
• n. Middle state or course; mean; medium.
• n. (sugar manufacture, historical) Milk of lime, or other substance, employed in the process formerly used…
• v. To moderate or control.
• v. To strengthen or toughen a material, especially metal, by heat treatment; anneal.
• v. To sauté spices in ghee or oil to release essential oils for flavouring a dish in South Asian cuisine.
• v. To mix clay, plaster or mortar with water to obtain the proper consistency.
• v. (music) To adjust, as the mathematical scale to the actual scale, or to that in actual use.
• v. (obsolete, Latinism) To govern; to manage.
• v. (archaic) To combine in due proportions; to constitute; to compose.
• v. (archaic) To mingle in due proportion; to prepare by combining; to modify, as by adding some new element;…
• v. (obsolete) To fit together; to adjust; to accommodate.

toughen

• v. (transitive) To make tough.
• v. (intransitive) To become tough.