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indurate
[ verb in-doo-reyt, -dyoo-; adjective in-doo-rit, -dyoo-; in-door-it, -dyoor- ]
verb (used with object)
- to make hard; harden, as rock, tissue, etc.:
Cold indurates the soil.
- to make callous, stubborn, or unfeeling:
transgressions that indurate the heart.
to indurate oneself to privation and suffering.
to indurate custom through practice.
verb (used without object)
- to become hard; harden.
- to become established or confirmed.
indurate
verb
- to make or become hard or callous
- to make or become hardy
adjective
- hardened, callous, or unfeeling
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Derived Forms
- ˈinduˌrative, adjective
- ˌinduˈration, noun
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Other Words From
- non·indu·rated adjective
- semi-indu·rate adjective
- semi-indu·rated adjective
- un·indu·rate adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of indurate1
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Example Sentences
Pick up again his indurate book, Dreams from My Father, and see the harsh truth.
Even where there is no plastering, the tattooing may be found to indurate the skin, and to render it less sensible to cold.
A thousand years after your body has returned to dust, that piece of Indurate will still exist, unchanged, unworn.
Ganeth-Klae designed it just before he disappeared, using the last lot of Indurate in existence.
He used the last lot of Indurate to make that booster, a device which he said would increase our take-off speed.
Stark and indurate like an Adirondack meadow enameled with trap rock, he plodded rigidly on.
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