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VERB
  1. make hard or harder
    The cold hardened the butter
  2. cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate
    He was inured to the cold
  3. become fixed or established
    indurated customs
  4. become hard or harder
    The wax hardened
ADJECTIVE
  1. 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
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