indurate
Verb · AdjectiveOpen English WordNet
Verb (4)indurated, indurating
- become fixed or established“indurated customs”More general change
- make hard or harder“The cold hardened the butter”Synonyms: hardenMore general changeMore specific anneal, face-harden, callusCauses hardenSimilar harden
- become hard or harder“The wax hardened”Synonyms: hardenMore general changeMore specific calcify, encrust, cure, callusSimilar harden
- cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate“He was inured to the cold”Synonyms: inurehardenMore general habituate, accustomMore specific steel oneself against, callous
Adjective (1)
- emotionally hardened“a callous indifference to suffering”“cold-blooded and indurate to public opinion”Synonyms: callouspachydermatousOpposite sensitiveSimilar insensitive
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
In′du·rate adjective
Origin: L. induratus, p. p. of indurare to harden. See Endure.
1. Hardened; not soft; indurated. John Tyndale
2. Without sensibility; unfeeling; obdurate.
In′du·rate transitive verb [past tense & past participle Indurated; present participle & verbal noun 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 intransitive verb
To grow hard; to harden, or become hard; as, clay indurates by drying, and by heat.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54