indurate (adj.)

  1. emotionally hardened; a callous indifference to suffering; cold-blooded and indurate to public opinion

    [ Syn: callous , pachydermatous ]

    indurate (v.)

  1. become fixed or established; indurated customs'

  2. make hard or harder; The cold hardened the butter

    [ Syn: harden ]

  3. become hard or harder; The wax hardened

    [ Syn: harden ]

  4. cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate; He was inured to the cold

    [ Syn: inure , harden ]

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