indurate
- to make hard; harden, as rock, tissue, etc.: Cold indurates the soil.
- to make callous, stubborn, or unfeeling: transgressions that indurate the heart.
- to inure; accustom: to indurate oneself to privation and suffering.
- to make enduring; confirm; establish: to indurate custom through practice.
- to become hard; harden.
- to become established or confirmed.
- hardened; unfeeling; callous; inured.
Origin of indurate
Related Words for indurate
consolidate, nerve, set, buttress, thicken, strengthen, stiffen, freeze, amalgamate, reinforce, fortify, close, toughen, petrify, jell, compact, bake, fix, callous, acclimatizeExamples from the Web for indurate
Contemporary Examples of indurate
Pick up again his indurate book, Dreams from My Father, and see the harsh truth.
Historical Examples of indurate
Imogen was deaf to their expostulations, and indurate and callous as adamant to their persuasions.
ImogenWilliam Godwin
Underneath these coherent and indurate ledges the most valuble ores exist, but coal and fossils are searched for in vain.
Even where there is no plastering, the tattooing may be found to indurate the skin, and to render it less sensible to cold.
John Rutherford, the White ChiefGeorge Lillie Craik
The drops that trickle within the cavern harden, yet brighten into spars as they indurate.
Godolphin, CompleteEdward Bulwer-Lytton
Can we consistently blame her if she becomes callous, when every legal provision directly tends to indurate her sensibilities?
The History of ProstitutionWilliam W. Sanger
indurate
- to make or become hard or callous
- to make or become hardy
- hardened, callous, or unfeeling
Word Origin for indurate
Word Origin and History for indurate
1530s, from Latin induratus, past participle of indurare "to make hard, harden" (see endure). Related: Indurated.