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in·du·rate

Audio Help [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 Audio Help   (ĭn'də-rāt', -dyə-) Pronunciation Key
v.   in·du·rat·ed, in·du·rat·ing, in·du·rates

v.   tr.

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

v. intr.

To grow hard; harden.
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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