SOFTENING Antonyms

• the process of becoming hard or solid by cooling or drying or crystallization

• the act of becoming stiff

• the process of becoming stiff or rigid

• becoming stronger

• the act of increasing the strength of something

• make or become coarse or coarser

• make less subtle or refined

• the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments

• with resolute determination

• marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakable

• not soft or yielding to pressure

• strong and sure

• not subject to revision or change

• (of especially a person's physical features) not shaking or trembling

• not liable to fluctuate or especially to fall

• securely established

• possessing the tone and resiliency of healthy tissue

• securely fixed in place

• unwavering in devotion to friend or vow or cause

• become taut or tauter

• make taut or tauter

• To make, or to become harsh; render hard and rough.

• To render peevish, morose, or austere.

• make rough or rougher

• make tough or tougher

• become hard or harder

• make hard or harder

• harden by reheating and cooling in oil

• make healthy

• cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate

• make sharp or sharper

• make crisp or more crisp and precise

• become sharp or sharper

• put (an image) into focus

• make (images or sounds) sharp or sharper

• raise the pitch of (musical notes)

• give a point to

• make (one's senses) more acute