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indurate
| indurated
| indurated clay
| induration
| induration of the arteries
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indurate
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb indurate has 4 senses
- indurate(v = verb.change) Array - become fixed or established; "indurated customs" is one way to change
- indurate(v = verb.change) harden - make hard or harder; "The cold hardened the butter" is one way to change
- indurate(v = verb.change) harden - become hard or harder; "The wax hardened" is one way to change
- indurate(v = verb.change) harden, inure - cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate; "He was inured to the cold" is one way to accustom, habituate
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Derived form noun induration1
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Derived form noun induration1
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Adjective indurate has 1 sense
- indurate(s = adj.all) callous, pachydermatous - emotionally hardened; "a callous indifference to suffering"; "cold-blooded and indurate to public opinion"
CIDE DICTIONARY
indurate, a. [L. induratus, p. p. of indurare to harden. See Endure.].
- Hardened; not soft; indurated. Tyndale. [1913 Webster]
- Without sensibility; unfeeling; obdurate. [1913 Webster]
indurate, v. 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]
indurate, v. 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.
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, vitrifyROGET THESAURUS
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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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