'Indurate' definitions:
Definition of 'indurate'
From: WordNet
adjective
Emotionally hardened; "a callous indifference to suffering"; "cold-blooded and indurate to public opinion" [syn: callous, indurate, pachydermatous]
verb
Become fixed or established; "indurated customs"
verb
verb
verb
Definition of 'Indurate'
From: GCIDE
- Indurate \In"du*rate\, v. i. To grow hard; to harden, or become hard; as, clay indurates by drying, and by heat. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Indurate'
From: GCIDE
- Indurate \In"du*rate\, a. [L. induratus, p. p. of indurare to harden. See Endure.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. Hardened; not soft; indurated. --Tyndale. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Without sensibility; unfeeling; obdurate. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Indurate'
From: GCIDE
- Indurate \In"du*rate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Indurated; p. pr. & vb. n. Indurating.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. To make hard; as, extreme heat indurates clay; some fossils are indurated by exposure to the air. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To make unfeeling; to deprive of sensibility; to render obdurate. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'indurate'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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