indurate

indurate
    adj 1: emotionally hardened; "a callous indifference to
           suffering"; "cold-blooded and indurate to public opinion"
           [syn: {callous}, {indurate}, {pachydermatous}]
    v 1: become fixed or established; "indurated customs"
    2: make hard or harder; "The cold hardened the butter" [syn:
       {harden}, {indurate}] [ant: {soften}]
    3: become hard or harder; "The wax hardened" [syn: {harden},
       {indurate}] [ant: {soften}]
    4: cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate; "He was
       inured to the cold" [syn: {inure}, {harden}, {indurate}]
    

Indurate \In"du*rate\, a. [L. induratus, p. p. of indurare to
   harden. See {Endure}.]
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   1. Hardened; not soft; indurated. --Tyndale.
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   2. Without sensibility; unfeeling; obdurate.
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Indurate \In"du*rate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Indurated}; p. pr. &
   vb. n. {Indurating}.]
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   1. To make hard; as, extreme heat indurates clay; some
      fossils are indurated by exposure to the air.
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   2. To make unfeeling; to deprive of sensibility; to render
      obdurate.
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Indurate \In"du*rate\, v. i.
   To grow hard; to harden, or become hard; as, clay indurates
   by drying, and by heat.
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49 Moby Thesaurus words for "indurate":
      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