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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Indurate \In"du*rate\, verb (used with an object) [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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Indurate \In"du*rate\, verb (used without an object) To grow hard; to harden, or become hard; as, clay indurates by drying, and by heat.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Indurate \In"du*rate\, adjective [L. induratus, p. p. of indurare to harden. See {Endure}.]
1. Hardened; not soft; indurated. --Tyndale.
2. Without sensibility; unfeeling; obdurate.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
indurate
adjective: emotionally hardened; "a callous indifference to suffering"; "cold-blooded and indurate to public opinion" [syn: {callous}, {thick-skinned}, {pachydermatous}]
verb
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}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
49 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
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