[syn: callous, indurate, pachydermatous]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Indurate \In"du*rate\, a. [L. induratus, p. p. of indurare to
harden. See Endure.]
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1. Hardened; not soft; indurated. --Tyndale.
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2. Without sensibility; unfeeling; obdurate.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Indurate \In"du*rate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Indurated; p. pr. &
vb. n. Indurating.]
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1. To make hard; as, extreme heat indurates clay; some
fossils are indurated by exposure to the air.
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2. To make unfeeling; to deprive of sensibility; to render
obdurate.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Indurate \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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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
indurate
adj 1: emotionally hardened; "a callous indifference to
suffering"; "cold-blooded and indurate to public opinion"
[syn: callous, indurate, pachydermatous]
v 1: become fixed or established; "indurated customs"
2: make hard or harder; "The cold hardened the butter" [syn:
harden, indurate] [ant: soften]
3: become hard or harder; "The wax hardened" [syn: harden,
indurate] [ant: soften]
4: cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate; "He was
inured to the cold" [syn: inure, harden, indurate]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
49 Moby Thesaurus words for "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