About The Word Indurate
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Indurate
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What's The Definition Of Indurate?
[adj] emotionally hardened; "a callous indifference to suffering"; "cold-blooded and indurate to public opinion"
[v] cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate; "He was inured to the cold" [v] become hard or harder; "The wax hardened" [v] make hard or harder; "The cold hardened the butter" [v] become fixed or established, as of a custom Synonyms | Synonyms for Indurate: callous | harden | insensitive | inure | pachydermatous | thick-skinned Related Terms | Find terms related to Indurate: anneal | backed | brutalize | cake | calcified | calcify | callous | calloused | case harden | case-hardened | concrete | congeal | cornify | crusted | crusty | crystallized | dry | firm | fossilize | fossilized | granulated | harden | hardened | hornified | incrusted | indurated | inure | lapidified | lapidify | lithify | ossified | ossify | petrified | petrify | reinforced | rigidified | sclerotic | set | solidified | solidify | steel | steeled | stiffened | strengthened | temper | toughen | toughened | vitrified | vitrify See Also | accustom | brace oneself for | calcify | callous | callus | cauterise | cauterize | change | encrust | face-harden | habituate | incrust | prepare for | steel oneself against | steel onself for Indurate In Webster's Dictionary \In"du*rate\, a. [L. induratus, p. p. of indurare to
harden. See {Endure}.]
1. Hardened; not soft; indurated. --Tyndale.
2. Without sensibility; unfeeling; obdurate.
\In"du*rate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Indurated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Indurating}.] 1. To make hard; as, extreme heat indurates clay; some fossils are indurated by exposure to the air. 2. To make unfeeling; to deprive of sensibility; to render obdurate. \In"du*rate\, v. i. To grow hard; to harden, or become hard; as, clay indurates by drying, and by heat. |
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