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Meanings of Harshened:

verb

Make unpleasantly rough or jarring to the senses.

Usage examples:

‘right,’ i said, harshening my tone

Meanings of Harshening:

verb

Make unpleasantly rough or jarring to the senses.

Usage examples:

‘right,’ i said, harshening my tone

Meanings of Harshens:

verb

Make unpleasantly rough or jarring to the senses.

Usage examples:

‘right,’ i said, harshening my tone

Meanings of Harsher:

adjective

Unpleasantly rough or jarring to the senses.

Usage examples:

Drenched in a harsh white neon light

Meanings of Harshest:

adjective

Unpleasantly rough or jarring to the senses.

Usage examples:

Drenched in a harsh white neon light

Meanings of Harshly:

adverb

In a manner that is unpleasantly rough or jarring to the senses.

Usage examples:

The offices are harshly lit by fluorescent lights

Meanings of Harshness:

noun

The quality of being unpleasantly rough or jarring to the senses.

Usage examples:

He slowly opened his eyes to the harshness of the light

Meanings of Harslet:

noun

A cold meat consisting of chopped or minced pork offal compressed into a loaf before being cooked.

Usage examples:

Butchers in boston linconshire have found a way of making haslet without wheat.

Meanings of Hart:

noun

An adult male deer, especially a red deer over five years old.

Usage examples:

The arthurian legends are widespread in the borders and it is claimed that king arthur's wise couns…

Meanings of Hartal:

noun

(in south asia) a closure of shops and offices as a protest or a mark of sorrow.

Usage examples:

The town observed a complete hartal

Meanings of Hartals:

noun

(in south asia) a closure of shops and offices as a protest or a mark of sorrow.

Usage examples:

The town observed a complete hartal

Meanings of Hartebeest:

noun

A large african antelope with a long head and sloping back, related to the gnus.

Usage examples:

The grazers are mainly antelope, wildebeest, hartebeest, oribi, impala, gazelle, reedbuck, roan and…

Meanings of Hartebeests:

noun

A large african antelope with a long head and sloping back, related to the gnus.

Usage examples:

The grazers are mainly antelope, wildebeest, hartebeest, oribi, impala, gazelle, reedbuck, roan and…

Meanings of Hartford:

proper noun

The capital of connecticut, in the centre of the state, on the connecticut river; population 124,062 (est. 2008).

noun

The capital city of the us state of connecticut

Usage examples:

The temple serves people of sikh faith from the hartford area., fire trucks from hartford carried a…

Meanings of Harts:

noun

An adult male deer, especially a red deer over five years old.

Usage examples:

The arthurian legends are widespread in the borders and it is claimed that king arthur's wise couns…

Meanings of Hartshorn:

noun

Aqueous ammonia solution used as smelling salts, formerly prepared from the horns of deer.

Usage examples:

Later, in the middle ages, ammonia was formed by the distillation of either stale urine, or the hoo…

Meanings of Hartwort:

noun

Originally: any of various umbelliferous plants used medicinally; especially the herbaceous plants laserpitium latifolium, l. siser, seseli tortuosum, and levisticum officinale, and the shrub bupleurum fruticosum. in later use: specifically any member of the genus tordylium (family apiaceae (umbelliferae)), comprising herbaceous plants native to southern europe (and grown or occasionally naturalized elsewhere); especially (more fully "great hartwort") t. maximum.

Meanings of Harum-scarum:

adverb

(behaving) in an uncontrolled way

Meanings of Haruspex:

noun

(in ancient rome) a religious official who interpreted omens by inspecting the entrails of sacrificial animals.

Usage examples:

In the case of the augurs or haruspices of rome, the animal was sacrificed to permit contemplation …

Meanings of Haruspication:

noun

(in ancient rome) the interpretation of omens by inspecting the entrails of sacrificial animals.

Usage examples:

Haruspication has died out more completely than almost any magical rite.

Meanings of Haruspices:

noun

(in ancient rome) a religious official who interpreted omens by inspecting the entrails of sacrificial animals.

Usage examples:

In the case of the augurs or haruspices of rome, the animal was sacrificed to permit contemplation …

Meanings of Harvardian:

noun

An admirer or student of thomas hardy or his writing.

adjective

Of or characteristic of thomas hardy or his work.

Meanings of Harvest:

noun

The process or period of gathering in crops.

Usage examples:

Farmers work longer hours during the harvest

verb

Gather (a crop) as a harvest.

Usage examples:

After harvesting, most of the crop is stored in large buildings

Meanings of Harvested:

verb

Gather (a crop) as a harvest.

Usage examples:

After harvesting, most of the crop is stored in large buildings

noun

The process or period of gathering in crops.

Usage examples:

Farmers work longer hours during the harvest

Meanings of Harvester:

noun

A person or machine that gathers crops as a harvest.

Usage examples:

Back-breaking labour as hired sugar beet harvesters