overharden
English
Verb
overharden (third-person singular simple present overhardens, present participle overhardening, simple past and past participle overhardened)
- To harden too much.
- 1661, Robert Boyle, The History of Fluidity and Firmness
- it would rebound; and proved brittle, like over-harden'd steel
- 1661, Robert Boyle, The History of Fluidity and Firmness
References
- overharden in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
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