Indurate : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Indurate	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for Indurate
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
indurate adj emotionally hardened; "a callous indifference to suffering"; "cold-blooded and indurate to public opinion" Synonym(s): callous, indurate, pachydermatous v become fixed or established; "indurated customs" make hard or harder; "The cold hardened the butter" Synonym(s): harden, indurate Antonym(s): soften become hard or harder; "The wax hardened" Synonym(s): harden, indurate Antonym(s): soften cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate; "He was inured to the cold" Synonym(s): inure, harden, indurate
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Indurate \In"du*rate\, v. i. To grow hard; to harden, or become hard; as, clay indurates by drying, and by heat.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Indurate \In"du*rate\, a. [L. induratus, p. p. of indurare to harden. See {Endure}.] 1. Hardened; not soft; indurated. --Tyndale. 2. Without sensibility; unfeeling; obdurate.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Indurate \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.