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Hard Natured I Could Be Improved Crossword Clue

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We've checked our database and believe the answer is INDURATE which was last seen in the The Guardian Cryptic crossword.
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We think the answer to this crossword clue is: INDURATE

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199%8Exact Match!
228%12Could be improved
327%12 Believed that society could be understood and improved through scientific observation

About This Clues Answer

We think the answer is "INDURATE" which means:

    adjective satellite
  • • Emotionally hardened
  • verb
  • • Become fixed or established
  • • Make hard or harder
  • • Become hard or harder
  • • Cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate
  • adjective
  • • Hardened, obstinate, unfeeling, callous.

An example sentence would be:

  • • "He tried to indurate his heart against her pleas."
  • • "The constant rejection indurates him to criticism."

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The Guardian Cryptic18 Feb 2015 Across 5
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