Indurate

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  • intransitive verb. To make hard; harden.
  • intransitive verb. To inure, as to hardship or ridicule.
  • intransitive verb. To make callous or obdurate.
  • intransitive verb. To grow hard; harden.
  • intransitive verb. To become firmly fixed or established.
  • adjective. Hardened; obstinate; unfeeling.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Hardened; unfeeling; indurated.
  • To grow hard; harden; become hard: as, clay indurates by drying and by extreme heat.
  • To become fixed or habitual; pass into use; inure.
  • To make hard: as, extreme heat indurates clay.
  • To make hard in feeling; deprive of sensibility; render obdurate.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Hardened; not soft; indurated.
  • adjective. Without sensibility; unfeeling; obdurate.
  • transitive verb. To make hard
  • transitive verb. To make unfeeling; to deprive of sensibility; to render obdurate.
  • intransitive verb. To grow hard; to harden, or become hard.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Indurated, obstinate, unfeeling, callous.
  • verb. to harden or to grow hard
  • verb. to make callous or unfeeling
  • verb. to inure; to strengthen; to make hardy or robust.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate
  • verb. become hard or harder
  • adjective. emotionally hardened
  • verb. become fixed or established
  • verb. make hard or harder
  • Word Usage
    "Bertram Cornell, the indurate, cold-blooded Englishman, is struck by many arrows but remains upright and still as a statue as his comrades make their way to safety."