Processes

Synonyms for hardening

The synonym for hardening recorded in this bank is set, in the sense "the process of becoming hard or solid by cooling or drying or crystallization". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 4, High Camp · 1 sense · noun

The synonym for hardening

setnoun, in the sense "the process of becoming hard or solid by cooling or drying or crystallization"

A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for hardening.

The sensenounTier 4, High CampProcesses

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

The hardening of concrete.

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The true synonym

set

Same sentence, swapped: The set of concrete.

Close but different

These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where hardening stands in the sentence above.

diffusion
filtration
constancy

Where hardening turns up in the game

hardening is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.

Play hardening

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. No sentence here is generated at deploy time.

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