Meaning of INDURATE
| Pronunciation: | | [adj]'indûrit, [v]'indû`reyt, 'indyûu`reyt
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- [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
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| | Synonyms: | | callous, harden, insensitive, inure, pachydermatous, thick-skinned |
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| | 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 | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\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.
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