INDURATE

callous, indurate, pachydermatous

(adjective) emotionally hardened; “a callous indifference to suffering”; “cold-blooded and indurate to public opinion”

inure, harden, indurate

(verb) cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate; “He was inured to the cold”

harden, indurate

(verb) become hard or harder; “The wax hardened”

harden, indurate

(verb) make hard or harder; “The cold hardened the butter”

indurate

(verb) become fixed or established; “indurated customs”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Verb

indurate (third-person singular simple present indurates, present participle indurating, simple past and past participle indurated)

To harden or to grow hard.

To make callous or unfeeling.

To inure; to strengthen; to make hardy or robust.

Synonyms

• inure

• (harden): See also harden

• (strengthen): See also strengthen

Adjective

indurate (comparative more indurate, superlative most indurate)

Hardened, obstinate, unfeeling, callous.

Anagrams

• daturine, ruinated, urinated

Source: Wiktionary

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In"du*rate, a. Etym: [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.

Definition: To grow hard; to harden, or become hard; as, clay indurates by drying, and by heat.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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