Usually means: Becomes firm, solid, or stiff.
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We found 13 dictionaries that define the word hardens:

General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. hardens: Merriam-Webster
  2. hardens: Collins English Dictionary
  3. hardens: Vocabulary.com
  4. Harden's, Hardens, hardens: Wordnik
  5. hardens: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. Hardens, hardens: Wiktionary
  7. hardens: Dictionary.com
  8. hardens: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Harden's: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. hardens: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hardens: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hardens: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hardens: Idioms

(Note: See harden as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (harden)

verb:  (intransitive) To become hard.
verb:  (transitive, ergative) To make something hard or harder.
verb:  (transitive, figurative) To strengthen.
verb:  (transitive, computing) To modify (a website or other system) to make it resistant to malicious attacks.
verb:  (ambitransitive) To become or make (a person or thing) resistant or less sensitive.
verb:  (intransitive, informal) To get an erection.
verb:  (ambitransitive, phonology) To become or make (a consonant) more fortis; to (cause to) undergo fortition.
verb:  (Slavic phonology) To unpalatalize or velarize.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  A place name:
noun:  A suburb in the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall, West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SK0101).
noun:  A village and civil parish (with a village council) in the Metropolitan Borough of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE0838).
noun:  A town in Hilltops council area, southern New South Wales, Australia.
noun:  Alternative form of hurden (“coarse linen”) [(UK, dialect) A coarse kind of linen made from hurds.]
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