indurate
Americanverb (used with object)
verb (used without object)
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to become hard; harden.
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to become established or confirmed.
adjective
verb
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to make or become hard or callous
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to make or become hardy
adjective
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of indurate
First recorded in 1375–1425; late Middle English indurat, from Latin indūrātus, past participle of indūrāre “to harden”; see in- 2, dure 1, -ate 1
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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 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
When indurate Premier Poincare came into office, international conferences went out of fashion.
From Time Magazine Archive
Moses and Aaron showed all these signs and plagues tofore Pharaoh, and his heart was so indurate that he would not let them depart.
From Bible Stories and Religious Classics by Wells, Philip P.
When his friends asked him, after this first interview, what he thought of the Queen, he gave her credit for "a proud mind, a crafty wit, and an indurate heart."
From Royal Edinburgh Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets by Reid, George
Both indurated by early Nintendo gaming and an inherited tradition of rote replication duplicated many orthodox video gaming tropes.
From Slate ● Jun. 27, 2018
This has become a matter of indurated faith, resistant to any insert of mere fact.
From Time Magazine Archive
The river in its section of the plain, as far as Bloody Fall, presents alternately cliffs of reddish sandstone, and red-coloured slaty indurated clay or marl, and shelving white clay banks.
From A Journey from Prince of Wales's Fort in Hudson's Bay to the Northern Ocean in the Years 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 New Edition with Introduction, Notes, and Illustrations by Tyrrell, J. B.
They are excessively variable in their mineralogical composition, and very often alternate in thin seams with biotite hornfels and indurated quartzites.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" by Various
Such glands rarely suppurate or undergo a necrotic degeneration; sometimes they become permanently indurated.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
Flowering glume papery-membranaceous, dry and sometimes indurating with age, rounded or flattish on the back, 5–many-nerved, scarious at the entire blunt summit.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa
The indurating effects of a selfish religiosity never withered her soul nor narrowed it.
From Old Familiar Faces by Watts-Dunton, Theodore
Contact with the world is an indurating process; I really did not know how hard I had grown, until I felt my heart soften at sight of you.
From Macaria by Evans, Augusta J. (Augusta Jane)
If such accumulations gather and are changed into hard rock by pressure and other indurating agencies they make typical breccias.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" by Various
Why should any one go through an indurating process?
From Queechy, Volume II by Warner, Susan
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