overharden

English

Etymology

over- + harden

Verb

overharden (third-person singular simple present overhardens, present participle overhardening, simple past and past participle overhardened)

  1. To harden too much.
    • 1661, Robert Boyle, The History of Fluidity and Firmness
      it would rebound; and proved brittle, like over-harden'd steel

References

  • overharden in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
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