meaning of indurate
1. Hardened; not soft; indurated.
2. Without sensibility; unfeeling; obdurate.
3. To make hard; as, extreme heat indurates clay; some fossils are indurated by exposure to the air.
4. To make unfeeling; to deprive of sensibility; to render obdurate.
5. To grow hard; to harden, or become hard; as, clay indurates by drying, and by heat.
6. cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate; "He was inured to the
">cold"
Related Words
indurate | indurated | indurated clay |