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]:
Indurated \In"du*ra'ted\, adjective Hardened; as, indurated clay; an indurated heart. --Goldsmith.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
48 Moby Thesaurus words for "indurated": Philistine, backed, brazen, calcified, callous, calloused, case-hardened, conscienceless, crusted, crusty, crystallized, flinty, fossilized, granulated, hard, hardened, hardhearted, heartless, hornified, impervious, incrusted, indurate, insensitive, inured, lapidified, lost to shame, obdurate, ossified, pachydermatous, petrified, proof against, reinforced, rigidified, sclerotic, seared, set, shameless, solidified, steeled, steeled against, steely, stiffened, stony, strengthened, thick-skinned, toughened, unblushing, vitrified
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