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indurate

 : 
Adjective, Verb (usu participle)
 : 
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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Verb indurate has 4 senses

Adjective indurate has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

induratea. [L. induratus, p. p. of indurare to harden. See Endure.].
  •  Hardened; not soft; indurated.  Tyndale.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Without sensibility; unfeeling; obdurate.  [1913 Webster]
induratev. t. 
  •  To make hard; as, extreme heat indurates clay; some fossils are indurated by exposure to the air.  [1913 Webster]
  •  To make unfeeling; to deprive of sensibility; to render obdurate.  [1913 Webster]
induratev. i. 
     To grow hard; to harden, or become hard; as, clay indurates by drying, and by heat.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

indurate, v.
1 tr. & intr. make or become hard.
2 tr. make callous or unfeeling.
3 intr. become inveterate.

Derivative
induration n. indurative adj.
Etymology
L indurare (as IN-(2), durus hard)

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

indurate

Hardness

VB render hard, harden, stiffen, indurate, petrify, temper, ossify, vitrify, accrust.

N hardness, rigidity, renitence, renitency, inflexibility, temper, callosity, durity, induration, petrifaction, lapidification, lapidescence, vitrification, ossification, crystallization, stone, pebble, flint, marble, rock, fossil, crag, crystal, quartz, granite, adamant, bone, cartilage, hardware, heart of oak, block, board, deal board, iron, steel, cast iron, decarbonized iron, wrought iron, nail, brick, concrete, cement, hard, rigid, stubborn, stiff, firm, starch, starched, stark, unbending, unlimber, unyielding, inflexible, tense, indurate, indurated, gritty, proof, adamant, adamantine, adamantean, concrete, stony, granitic, calculous, lithic, vitreous, horny, corneous, bony, osseous, ossific, cartilaginous, hard as a rock, stiff as buckram, stiff as a poker, stiff as starch, stiff as as board.

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