harden
Example Sentences
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But avalanche snow, which can start out loose and fluffy, consolidates quickly, hardening like concrete.
From Los Angeles Times
But good intentions can harden into dogma, and instead of helping people work through conflicted feelings, practitioners doubled down on the proposition that any desire for change was evidence of internalized harm.
What began a week ago with Tehran shopkeepers has spread nationwide and hardened into anti-regime demonstrations.
At University College London, neuroscientist Dr Ravi Das has been trying to understand why some habits harden into addictions while others fade away.
From BBC
Mustapha Pakzad, a geopolitical analyst focused on Iran, said repression could rapidly harden if the protests turn overwhelmingly against the Islamic Republic.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
