hardening
Definitions
Noun
- Abnormal hardening or thickening of tissue
- The process of becoming hard or solid by cooling or drying or crystallization
- The act of making something harder (firmer or tighter or more compact)
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
Fragment
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Sounds Like
Words that sound like the term "hardening".
| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | housekeeping | 3 | 7 |
| 2 | heartening | 3 | 4 |
| 3 | homecoming | 3 | 4 |
| 4 | horrifying | 4 | 3 |
| 5 | hemorrhaging | 4 | 2 |
| 6 | harnessing | 3 | 1 |
| 7 | headlining | 3 | 1 |
| 8 | harmening | 3 | 0 |
| 9 | helbling | 3 | 0 |
| 10 | heralding | 3 | 0 |
| 11 | hitchhiking | 3 | 0 |
| 12 | hobnobbing | 3 | 0 |
| 13 | homemaking | 3 | 0 |
| 14 | houseraising | 3 | 0 |
| 15 | housewarming | 3 | 0 |
| 16 | humbling | 3 | 0 |
| 17 | wholesaling | 3 | 0 |
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Words that are spelled similarly to the term "hardening".
| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happening | 3 | 28 |
| 2 | heartening | 3 | 4 |
| 3 | darkening | 3 | 4 |
| 4 | gardening | 3 | 3 |
| 5 | sharpening | 3 | 3 |
| 6 | harding | 2 | 2 |
| 7 | maddening | 3 | 2 |
| 8 | hastening | 3 | 2 |
| 9 | harden | 2 | 1 |
| 10 | harmening | 3 | 0 |
| 11 | hoarding | 2 | 0 |
| 12 | haring | 2 | 0 |
| 13 | hardin | 2 | 0 |
| 14 | haning | 2 | 0 |
| 15 | saddening | 3 | 0 |
| 16 | parenting | 3 | 0 |
| 17 | pardoning | 3 | 0 |
| 18 | hardinger | 3 | 0 |
| 19 | harding's | 2 | 0 |
| 20 | deadening | 3 | 0 |
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Words that are statistically associated with "hardening" in the same piece of text.
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Words that contain the same consonants as the term "hardening".
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Results:
Term
Definitions: 8
Fragments: 1
Sound Alikes: 17
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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