indurate Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb become fixed or established
    • indurated customs
  2. verb make hard or harder
    harden.
    • The cold hardened the butter
  3. verb become hard or harder
    harden.
    • The wax hardened
  4. verb cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate
    harden; inure.
    • He was inured to the cold
  5. adjective satellite emotionally hardened
    pachydermatous; callous.
    • a callous indifference to suffering
    • cold-blooded and indurate to public opinion

WordNet

In"du*rate adjective
Etymology
L. induratus, p. p. of indurare to harden. See Endure.
Definitions
  1. Hardened; not soft; indurated. Tyndale.
  2. Without sensibility; unfeeling; obdurate.
In"du*rate transitive verb
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Indurated ; present participle & verbal noun Indurating
Definitions
  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 intransitive verb
Definitions
  1. To grow hard; to harden, or become hard; as, clay indurates by drying, and by heat.

Webster 1913