indurate

indurate
v. /in"doo rayt', -dyoo-/; adj. /in"doo rit, -dyoo-; in door"it, -dyoor"-/, v., indurated, indurating, adj.
v.t.
1. to make hard; harden, as rock, tissue, etc.: Cold indurates the soil.
2. to make callous, stubborn, or unfeeling: transgressions that indurate the heart.
3. to inure; accustom: to indurate oneself to privation and suffering.
4. to make enduring; confirm; establish: to indurate custom through practice.
v.i.
5. to become hard; harden.
6. to become established or confirmed.
adj.
7. hardened; unfeeling; callous; inured.
[1375-1425; late ME indurat < L induratus ptp. of indurare to harden. See IN-2, DURE1, -ATE1]

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