hardened
Definitions
Adjective
- Made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment
- Protected against attack (especially by nuclear weapons)
Verb
- Become hard or harder
- Make hard or harder
- Harden by reheating and cooling in oil
- Make fit
- Cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate
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Sounds Like
Words that sound like the term "hardened".
| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | husband | 2 | 131 |
| 2 | homeland | 2 | 5 |
| 3 | homebound | 2 | 1 |
| 4 | hagglund | 2 | 0 |
| 5 | haglund | 2 | 0 |
| 6 | harland | 2 | 0 |
| 7 | haugland | 2 | 0 |
| 8 | headband | 2 | 0 |
| 9 | headlined | 2 | 0 |
| 10 | headlund | 2 | 0 |
| 11 | headwind | 2 | 0 |
| 12 | heartened | 2 | 0 |
| 13 | hedlund | 2 | 0 |
| 14 | hegland | 2 | 0 |
| 15 | heglund | 2 | 0 |
| 16 | heistand | 2 | 0 |
| 17 | helfand | 2 | 0 |
| 18 | hestand | 2 | 0 |
| 19 | hetland | 2 | 0 |
| 20 | hidebound | 2 | 0 |
| 21 | hiestand | 2 | 0 |
| 22 | hoagland | 2 | 0 |
| 23 | hoaglund | 2 | 0 |
| 24 | hofland | 2 | 0 |
| 25 | hogland | 2 | 0 |
| 26 | hoglund | 2 | 0 |
| 27 | hoogland | 2 | 0 |
| 28 | horehound | 2 | 0 |
| 29 | hougland | 2 | 0 |
| 30 | hovland | 2 | 0 |
| 31 | hulond | 2 | 0 |
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Words that are spelled similarly to the term "hardened".
| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sharpened | 2 | 5 |
| 2 | arden | 2 | 3 |
| 3 | hardener | 3 | 1 |
| 4 | gardened | 2 | 1 |
| 5 | harden | 2 | 1 |
| 6 | saddened | 2 | 1 |
| 7 | harned | 1 | 0 |
| 8 | hardee | 2 | 0 |
| 9 | ardene | 2 | 0 |
| 10 | heartened | 2 | 0 |
| 11 | hardeners | 3 | 0 |
| 12 | hoarded | 2 | 0 |
| 13 | harnden | 2 | 0 |
| 14 | hardens | 2 | 0 |
| 15 | hardheaded | 3 | 0 |
| 16 | harne | 1 | 0 |
| 17 | haren | 2 | 0 |
| 18 | haden | 2 | 0 |
| 19 | arend | 2 | 0 |
| 20 | sharlene | 2 | 0 |
Words That Follow
Words that often follow the term "hardened" in a sentence.
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Words That Precede
Words that often precede the term "hardened" in a sentence.
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Words that are statistically associated with "hardened" in the same piece of text.
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Consonant Match
Words that contain the same consonants as the term "hardened".
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Results:
Term
Definitions: 7
Fragments: 1
Sound Alikes: 31
Spelled Like: 20
Words that Follow: 0
Words that Precede: 0
Statistically Associated: 0
Consonant Matches: 0
Freq: The frequency is a relative score of how often the word appears in standard English text.
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