Gird vs Harden - What's the difference?
gird | harden | Synonyms |
To bind with a flexible rope or cord.
To encircle with, or as if with a belt.
To prepare oneself for an action.
A sarcastic remark.
* Shakespeare
A stroke with a rod or switch.
A severe spasm; a twinge; a pang.
* Tillotson
To jeer at.
* Shakespeare
To jeer.
* Shakespeare
To become hard (tough, resistant to pressure).
(ergative) To make something hard or harder (tough, resistant to pressure).
(dated) To become or make a person or thing resistant or less sensitive.
In intransitive terms the difference between gird and harden
is that gird is to jeer while harden is to become hard (tough, resistant to pressure).As verbs the difference between gird and harden
is that gird is to bind with a flexible rope or cord while harden is to become hard (tough, resistant to pressure).As a noun gird
is a sarcastic remark.gird
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) .Verb
- The fasces were girt about with twine in bundles large.
- The lady girt herself with silver chain, from which she hung a golden shear.
- Our home is girt by sea... -
Etymology 2
Noun
(en noun)- I thank thee for that gird , good Tranio.
- Conscience is freed from many fearful girds and twinges which the atheist feels.
Verb
(en verb)- Being moved, he will not spare to gird the gods.
- Men of all sorts take a pride to gird at me.
harden
English
Verb
(en verb)- When thou goest to return into Egypt, see that thou do all those wonders before Pharaoh, which I have put in thine hand: but I will harden his heart, that he shall not let the people go. — KJV, Exodus 4:21
