FACE-HARDEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does face-harden mean? 

• FACE-HARDEN (verb)
  The verb FACE-HARDEN has 1 sense:

1. harden steel by adding carbon

  Familiarity information: FACE-HARDEN used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FACE-HARDEN (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Harden steel by adding carbon

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "face-harden" is one way to...):

harden; indurate (make hard or harder)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something