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in·du·rate       [v. in-doo-reyt, -dyoo-; adj. in-doo-rit, -dyoo-; in-door-it, -dyoor-] Pronunciation Key verb, -rat·ed, -rat·ing, adjective
–verb (used with object)
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.
–verb (used without object)
5.to become hard; harden.
6.to become established or confirmed.
–adjective
7.hardened; unfeeling; callous; inured.
[Origin: 1375–1425; late ME indurat < L indūrātus ptp. of indūrāre to harden. See in-2, dure1, -ate1]
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in·du·rate       (ĭn'də-rāt', -dyə-)  Pronunciation Key 
v.   in·du·rat·ed, in·du·rat·ing, in·du·rates

v.   tr.
  1. To make hard; harden: soil that had been indurated by extremes of climate.
  2. To inure, as to hardship or ridicule.
  3. To make callous or obdurate: "It is the curse of revolutionary calamities to indurate the heart" (Helen Maria Williams).

v.   intr.
  1. To grow hard; harden.
  2. To become firmly fixed or established.

adj.   (ĭn'dŏŏ-rĭt, -dyə-)
Hardened; obstinate; unfeeling.


[Latin indūrāre, indūrāt- : in-, intensive pref.; see in-2 + dūrus, hard; see deru- in Indo-European roots.]

in'du·ra'tive adj.
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Indurated

In"du*rate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Indurated; p. pr. & vb. n. Indurating.]

1. To make hard; as, extreme heat indurates clay; some fossils are indurated by exposure to the air.

2. To make unfeeling; to deprive of sensibility; to render obdurate.

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