Definition of Indurate in English :

Define Indurate in English

Indurate meaning in English

Meaning of Indurate in English

Pronunciation of Indurate in English

Indurate pronunciation in English

Pronounce Indurate in English

Indurate

see synonyms of indurate

Verb

1. indurate

become fixed or established

Example Sentences:
'indurated customs'

2. harden, indurate

make hard or harder

Example Sentences:
'The cold hardened the butter'

3. harden, indurate

become hard or harder

Example Sentences:
'The wax hardened'

4. harden, indurate, inure

cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate

Example Sentences:
'He was inured to the cold'

Adjective

5. callous, indurate, pachydermatous

emotionally hardened

Example Sentences:
'a callous indifference to suffering'
'cold-blooded and indurate to public opinion'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Indurate

see synonyms of indurate
verb (ˈɪndjʊˌreɪt )
1. 
to make or become hard or callous
2. 
to make or become hardy
adjective (ˈɪndjʊrɪt )
3. 
hardened, callous, or unfeeling

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers


Indurate

see synonyms of indurate
verb transitiveWord forms: ˈinduˌrated or ˈinduˌrating
1. 
to make hard; harden
2. 
to make callous, unfeeling, or stubborn
3. 
to cause to be firmly established
verb intransitive
4. 
to become indurated
adjective
5.  Rare
hardened
6. 
made callous, unfeeling, or stubborn

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.


Indurate

see synonyms of indurate
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. (ĭnd-rĭt, -dyə-)
Hardened; obstinate; unfeeling.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.