hardening

The quicker the finished product gets into the hardening cabinet, the smaller the ice crystals.

The drug halts the development of atherosclerosis, a word referring to the hardening of the arteries.

The force of the two reacting spreads the foam through the chest cavity, hardening to apply pressure to any bleed sites.

The hardening of an idea into a plan for a novel is a vague process and hard to describe.

He was found at autopsy to have severe hardening of his coronary arteries.

She saw the tightening of his lips, the hardening of his eyes, beyond which he gave no other sign that she had hit him.

There was in it the indefinable hardening and ageing which seemed to Boyson to have affected the whole personality.

She talked nearly all the way over, sobbing at times, and then hardening herself with scolding.

She stepped back with her mouth hardening and the gleam still in her eyes.

“Have my share of that money,” said Katrine, with a peculiar hardening of her face.