Found 2 items, similar to Indurate.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: indurate
indurate
adj : emotionally hardened;
“a callous indifference to suffering”;
“cold-blooded and indurate to public opinion” [syn:
callous,
thick-skinned,
pachydermatous]
indurate
v 1: become fixed or established;
“indurated customs”
2: make hard or harder;
“The cold hardened the butter” [syn:
harden]
[ant:
soften]
3: become hard or harder;
“The wax hardened” [syn:
harden]
[ant:
soften]
4: cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate;
“He was
inured to the cold” [syn:
inure,
harden]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Indurate
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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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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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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