indurate

Verb

Verb Forms: indurated, indurating, indurates

• To make hard or harden; to become hardened.
• become fixed or established
  • "indurated customs"
• make hard or harder
• become hard or harder
• cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate
• To harden or to grow hard.
• To make callous or unfeeling.
• To inure; to strengthen; to make hardy or robust.

Adjective Satellite

• emotionally hardened
  • "cold-blooded and indurate to public opinion"

Adj

• Hardened.
• Obstinate, unfeeling, callous.

Examples

• Some Scrabble players INDURATE their resolve, never giving up until the last tile is played.
• The doctor removed a lot of indurate skin from his wound.

Synonyms

callous, harden, inure, pachydermatous

Antonyms

soften

Anagrams of indurate