| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| VERB: | 1. To make firmer in a particular conviction or habit: confirm, fortify, strengthen. See STRONG. 2. To make or become physically hard: cake, concrete, congeal, dry, indurate, petrify, set1, solidify. See SOLID. 3. To make resistant to hardship, especially through continued exposure: acclimate, acclimatize, caseharden, indurate, season, toughen. See CONTINUE, RESIST.
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