indurate (redirected from indurating)

in·du·rate  (nd-rt, -dy-)

v. in·du·rat·ed, in·du·rat·ing, in·du·rates

v.tr.

1. To make hard; harden: soil that had been indurated by extremes of climate.

2. To inure, as to hardship or ridicule.

3. To make callous or obdurate: "It is the curse of revolutionary calamities to indurate the heart" (Helen Maria Williams).

v.intr.

1. To grow hard; harden.

2. To become firmly fixed or established.

adj. (nd-rt, -dy-)

Hardened; obstinate; unfeeling.

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[Latin indrre, indrt- : in-, intensive pref.; see in-² + drus, hard; see deru- in Indo-European roots.]

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indu·rative adj.

Thesaurus

Verb	1.	indurate - become fixed or established; "indurated customs" change - undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night"
	2.	indurate - make hard or harder; "The cold hardened the butter" harden change - undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night" face-harden - harden steel by adding carbon callus - cause a callus to form on; "The long march had callused his feet" anneal, temper, normalize - bring to a desired consistency, texture, or hardness by a process of gradually heating and cooling; "temper glass" harden, indurate - become hard or harder; "The wax hardened"
	3.	indurate - become hard or harder; "The wax hardened" harden change - undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night" encrust, incrust - form a crust or a hard layer callus - form a callus or calluses; "His foot callused" harden, indurate - make hard or harder; "The cold hardened the butter" calcify - become impregnated with calcium salts cure - make (substances) hard and improve their usability; "cure resin"; "cure cement"; "cure soap"
	4.	indurate - cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate; "He was inured to the cold" inure, harden callous, cauterise, cauterize - make insensitive or callous; deaden feelings or morals brace oneself for, prepare for, steel oneself against, steel onself for - prepare mentally or emotionally for something unpleasant accustom, habituate - make psychologically or physically used (to something); "She became habituated to the background music"
Adj.	1.	indurate - emotionally hardened; "a callous indifference to suffering"; "cold-blooded and indurate to public opinion" callous, pachydermatous insensitive - deficient in human sensibility; not mentally or morally sensitive; "insensitive to the needs of the patients"