Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive & intransitive verb To make or become harsh.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To render harsh; make hard and rough.
- To render peevish, morose, or austere.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To make, or to become
harsh
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb make harsh or harsher
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Examples
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(He rewrote Ghosts -- at age 85, mind you -- with loads of obscenities to harshen the inter-familial accusations even more, and drew out the final death scene, as McNulty beautifully describes it, to "near blinding Oedipal apotheosis.")
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I refuse to let the hate get on me lest it change my natural charm and harshen my fluffy self.
Gore! Ann Althouse 2008
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At times their voices did harshen and escalate, though never, it seemed, into full-blown argument, just mild jeers or teasing mixed with bouts of adolescent jostling, all of which Vincent, ten paces removed from the cusp of their circle, found vaguely distracting.
Heaven Lake John Dalton 2004
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At times their voices did harshen and escalate, though never, it seemed, into full-blown argument, just mild jeers or teasing mixed with bouts of adolescent jostling, all of which Vincent, ten paces removed from the cusp of their circle, found vaguely distracting.
Heaven Lake John Dalton 2004
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At times their voices did harshen and escalate, though never, it seemed, into full-blown argument, just mild jeers or teasing mixed with bouts of adolescent jostling, all of which Vincent, ten paces removed from the cusp of their circle, found vaguely distracting.
Heaven Lake John Dalton 2004
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At times their voices did harshen and escalate, though never, it seemed, into full-blown argument, just mild jeers or teasing mixed with bouts of adolescent jostling, all of which Vincent, ten paces removed from the cusp of their circle, found vaguely distracting.
Heaven Lake John Dalton 2004
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At times their voices did harshen and escalate, though never, it seemed, into full-blown argument, just mild jeers or teasing mixed with bouts of adolescent jostling, all of which Vincent, ten paces removed from the cusp of their circle, found vaguely distracting.
Heaven Lake John Dalton 2004
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At times their voices did harshen and escalate, though never, it seemed, into full-blown argument, just mild jeers or teasing mixed with bouts of adolescent jostling, all of which Vincent, ten paces removed from the cusp of their circle, found vaguely distracting.
Heaven Lake John Dalton 2004
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Not the great sorrows of life, or its great sacrifices, but fretfulness, ignoble worries, sordid cares, are that which draw lines upon a woman's face and harshen her features.
The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance Lucas Malet 1891
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