Indurate

[indjureit]

Definition

(verb.) become fixed or established; 'indurated customs'.

Edited by Cary--From WordNet

Definition

(a.) Hardened; not soft; indurated.

(a.) Without sensibility; unfeeling; obdurate.

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

(v. t.) To make unfeeling; to deprive of sensibility; to render obdurate.

(v. i.) To grow hard; to harden, or become hard; as, clay indurates by drying, and by heat.

Typist: Rosanna

Synonyms and Synonymous

v. a. [1]. Harden, render hard, make hard.[2]. Make obdurate, make unfeeling.

Checker: Ronnie

Synonyms and Antonyms

[See HARDEN]

Editor: Val

Definition

v.t. to harden as the feelings.—v.i. to grow hard: to harden.—n. Indurā′tion.—adj. In′durative.

Typist: Vance

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