Endurecer

v. harden, toughen; stiffen; bake; bind; set; inure; ossify

v. harden, bronze; cake; coarsen, indurate; sear, set; stiffen, toughen

= harden, stiffen, toughen, dehumanise [dehumanize, -USA].
Ex: Plaster was mixed with water and poured over the type, and allowed to set; when it had hardened it was lifted off the page (the oil preventing it from sticking to the type), and baked hard in an oven.
Ex: Self-effacing nervousness causes the epiglottis to tighten, strangling the words in the throat and stiffening the diaphragm so that it is like pulled-out elastic unable to propel anything.
Ex: It contains a bevy of fearsomely feisty female archetypes removed from domestic obligations and toughened in the brutal setting of prison life.
Ex: The first option means fighting the resistance, brutalizing, barbarizing and dehumanising both ourselves and our victims, and resulting, at best, in a desolate and desocialized state.
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* endurecer el control = tighten (up) + control.
* endurecerse = cake (up).

Harden