Indurate Definition & Meaning

indurate
adjective
  1. emotionally hardened; "a callous indifference to suffering"; "cold-blooded and indurate to public opinion"
verb
  1. become fixed or established; "indurated customs"
  2. make hard or harder; "The cold hardened the butter"
  3. become hard or harder; "The wax hardened"
  4. cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate; "He was inured to the cold"

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