indurate

American  

[in-doo-reyt, -dyoo-, in-doo-rit, -dyoo-, in-door-it, -dyoor-] / ˈɪn dʊˌreɪt, -dyʊ-, ˈɪn dʊ rɪt, -dyʊ-, ɪnˈdʊər ɪt, -ˈdyʊər- /

verb (used with object)

indurated, indurating

1. to make hard; harden, as rock, tissue, etc..

   Cold indurates the soil.

2. to make callous, stubborn, or unfeeling.

   transgressions that indurate the heart.

3. to inure; accustom.

   to indurate oneself to privation and suffering.

4. to make enduring; confirm; establish.

   to indurate custom through practice.

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verb (used without object)

indurated, indurating

1. to become hard; harden.

2. to become established or confirmed.

adjective

1. hardened; unfeeling; callous; inured.

indurate British  

verb

1. to make or become hard or callous

2. to make or become hardy

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adjective

1. hardened, callous, or unfeeling

Other Word Forms

• induration noun
• indurative adjective
• nonindurated adjective
• semi-indurate adjective
• semi-indurated adjective
• unindurate adjective

Etymology

Origin of indurate

First recorded in 1375–1425; late Middle English indurat, from Latin indūrātus, past participle of indūrāre “to harden”; in- ², dure ¹, -ate ¹

Example Sentences

Sometimes human beings do things that are too much for even the most indurate newsgatherers of the daily press to contemplate without shuddering.

From Time Magazine Archive

When indurate Premier Poincare came into office, international conferences went out of fashion.

From Time Magazine Archive

When lean years came, young Wallace studiously and scientifically applied himself to the task of inducing the indurate soil to yield him his livelihood.

From Time Magazine Archive

Ah, thankless! canst thou envy him who gains     The Stoic's cold and indurate repose?

From Original sonnets on various subjects; and odes paraphrased from Horace by Seward, Anna

The lessons of adversity are not always salutary—sometimes they soften and amend, but as often they indurate and pervert.

From Last Days of Pompeii by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron