indurate

v. make hard, harden; make stubborn or unfeeling; become callous or hardened, become accustomed

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Verb
1. become fixed or established; "indurated customs"
(hypernym) change
2. make hard or harder; "The cold hardened the butter"
(synonym) harden
(hypernym) change
(hyponym) face-harden
(cause) harden
(verb-group) harden
(derivation) sclerosis, induration
3. become hard or harder; "The wax hardened"
(synonym) harden
(hypernym) change
(hyponym) encrust, incrust
(verb-group) harden
(derivation) sclerosis, induration
4. cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate; "He was inured to the cold"
(synonym) inure, harden
(hypernym) habituate, accustom
(hyponym) callous, cauterize, cauterise

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Adjective
1. emotionally hardened; "a callous indifference to suffering"; "cold-blooded and indurate to public opinion"
(synonym) callous, thick-skinned, pachydermatous
(similar) insensitive

(v. t.)
To make unfeeling; to deprive of sensibility; to render obdurate.
  

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

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

(a.)
Without sensibility; unfeeling; obdurate.
  

(a.)
Hardened; not soft; indurated.
  

v. a.
1. make hard
کڑا کرنا, سخت کرنا
2. make unfeeling
کٹھور کرنا, پتھرانا
indurate
n. v.
کڑا ہونا, سخت ہونا, بے حس ہو جانا, دل پتھر کرلينا, سخت دل ہو جانا
indurate
adj.
1. not soft
سخت, کڑا, پتھر
2. unfeeling
ہٹيلا, سنگ دل
indurate
n.

Synonyms and related words:
anneal, backed, brutalize, cake, calcified, calcify, callous, calloused, case harden, case-hardened, concrete, congeal, cornify, crusted, crusty, crystallized, dry, firm, fossilize, fossilized, granulated, harden, hardened, hornified, incrusted, indurated, inure, lapidified, lapidify, lithify, ossified, ossify, petrified, petrify, reinforced, rigidified, sclerotic, set, solidified, solidify, steel, steeled, stiffened, strengthened, temper, toughen, toughened, vitrified, vitrify