VERB
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make hard or harder
The cold hardened the butter -
cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate
He was inured to the cold -
become fixed or established
indurated customs -
become hard or harder
The wax hardened
ADJECTIVE
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emotionally hardened
a callous indifference to suffering
cold-blooded and indurate to public opinion
How To Use indurate In A Sentence
- Sometimes the skin is indurated and lies in folds, or the shoe-boil shows abrasions on its surface and fistulous openings leading from abscess centres. Common Diseases of Farm Animals
- 'If there be not in her a proud mind, a crafty wit, and an indurate heart against God and His truth, my judgment faileth me.' John Knox
- Swamp or Hanover Square, to subscribe to a testimonial to some one of the best abused of these "indurated" sinners, in honor of his distinguished services in lowering some tax-rate, in suppressing some nuisance, in establishing some new municipal safeguard to life or property. Jersey Street and Jersey Lane Urban and Suburban Sketches
- It may begin as a hard nodule, or as a papillary growth which breaks down on the surface, leaving a deep ulcer with a characteristically indurated base -- the _crateriform ulcer_. Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.
- They are so extremely short and indurate that it is difficult to imagine the function they perform; at first they are capable probably of absorbing from the air. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
- It has been properly observed, that there are preparations which so indurate the cuticle, as to render it insensible to the heat of either boiling oil or melted lead; and the fatal qualities of certain poisons may be destroyed, if the medium through which they are imbibed, as we suppose to. be the case here, is a strong alkali. Miracle Mongers and Their Methods
- 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. “Why this longing for life? It is a game which no man wins.”
- The material most prized for the purpose of pipe-making is the beautiful red pipe-stone of the Coteau des Prairies, which is an indurated aluminous stone, highly colored with red oxide of iron. Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce
- Usage: We see so much bad news every day that we risk becoming an indurate society, incapable of deep feeling until great tragedy. Word of the Week #11
- This is a well indurated fluviatile quartz arenite. Qwaider Planet