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Definitions for: 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
Webster (1913) Definition: 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.
Synonyms: callous, harden, insensitive, inure, pachydermatous, thick-skinned
Antonyms: soften
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
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