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harden someone's heart en · VERB

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (dated, idiomatic, reflexive, usually) To make someone more resistant to something.
    • And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt. But Pharaoh shall not hearken unto you, that I may lay my hand upon Egypt, and bring forth mine armies, and my people the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great judgments. 1611, Authorized King James translation of Exodus 7:3–4
    • Farrell had been to prison, and he thought the daily malignancy he had witnessed there had hardened his heart. 1998, Michael S. Ledwidge, The narrowback:
    • Seeing so much suffering for so long hardened his heart.
    • She hardened her heart against his inevitable pleas.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
hardening someone's heart Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
hardens someone's heart Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
hardened someone's heart Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
hardened someone's heart Tense=Past lexicographic

Translations (3)

pl zatwardzić serce (make someone more resistant to something) · pl zatwardzać serce (make someone more resistant to something) · ja 心を鬼にする (make someone more resistant to something)