Term: hardening: the act of making something harder (firmer or tighter or more compact)
Candidate hypernym: event: something that happens at a given place and time → 1
Candidate hypernym: mission bells: herb of northwestern America having green-and-purple bell-shaped flowers → 0
Candidate hypernym: pitcher: an open vessel with a handle and a spout for pouring → 0
Candidate hypernym: genus stevia: genus of shrubs and herbs of tropical and warm Americas → 0
Candidate hypernym: christmas: a Christian holiday celebrating the birth of Christ; a quarter day in England, Wales, and Ireland → 0
Candidate hypernym: neck: a narrow part of an artifact that resembles a neck in position or form → 0
Candidate hypernym: higher cognitive process: cognitive processes that presuppose the availability of knowledge and put it to use → 0
Candidate hypernym: clade: a group of biological taxa or species that share features inherited from a common ancestor → 0
Candidate hypernym: superficies: outer surface of an area or a body → 0
Candidate hypernym: ketone group: a group having the characteristic properties of ketones → 0
Candidate hypernym: haversian canal: any of the many tiny canals that contain blood vessels and connective tissue and that form a network in bone → 0