Verb (used with object), verb (used without object) : Avarice had harshened his features. From Dictionary.com.
I refuse to let the hate get on me lest it change my natural charm and harshen my fluffy self. From Wordnik.com. [Gore!] Reference
(He rewrote Ghosts -- at age 85, mind you -- with loads of obscenities to harshen the inter-familial accusations even more, and drew out the final death scene, as McNulty beautifully describes it, to "near blinding Oedipal apotheosis."). From Wordnik.com. [Garrett Eisler: Bergman on Stage] Reference
Not the great sorrows of life, or its great sacrifices, but fretfulness, ignoble worries, sordid cares, are that which draw lines upon a woman's face and harshen her features. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance] Reference
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