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Definition of Indurate

1. Verb. Become fixed or established. "Indurated customs"

2. Adjective. Emotionally hardened. "Cold-blooded and indurate to public opinion"

3. Verb. Make hard or harder. "The cold hardened the butter"

4. Verb. Become hard or harder. "The wax hardened"

5. Verb. Cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate. "He was inured to the cold"

Definition of Indurate

1. a. Hardened; not soft; indurated.

2. v. t. To make hard; as, extreme heat indurates clay; some fossils are indurated by exposure to the air.

3. v. i. To grow hard; to harden, or become hard; as, clay indurates by drying, and by heat.

Definition of Indurate

1. to make hard [v -RATED, -RATING, -RATES] - See also: hard

Medical Definition of Indurate

1. 1. To make hard; as, extreme heat indurates clay; some fossils are indurated by exposure to the air. 2. To make unfeeling; to deprive of sensibility; to render obdurate. Origin: Indurated; Indurating. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Indurate

indulines indulinophil indulins indulin -50415 indult indults indument indument indumentum indumentum

induna indunas induplicate induplicative indurate (current term) indurate (current term) indurated indurated indurated clay indurates

indurating induration induration indurations induration of the arteries indurative indurative Indus indusia indusial

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