Indurated

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Indurate \In"du*rate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Indurated}; p. pr. &
     vb. n. {Indurating}.]
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     1. To make hard; as, extreme heat indurates clay; some
        fossils are indurated by exposure to the air.
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     2. To make unfeeling; to deprive of sensibility; to render
        obdurate.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Indurated \In"du*ra`ted\, a.
     Hardened; as, indurated clay; an indurated heart.
     --Goldsmith.
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From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  48 Moby Thesaurus words for "indurated":
     Philistine, backed, brazen, calcified, callous, calloused,
     case-hardened, conscienceless, crusted, crusty, crystallized,
     flinty, fossilized, granulated, hard, hardened, hardhearted,
     heartless, hornified, impervious, incrusted, indurate, insensitive,
     inured, lapidified, lost to shame, obdurate, ossified,
     pachydermatous, petrified, proof against, reinforced, rigidified,
     sclerotic, seared, set, shameless, solidified, steeled,
     steeled against, steely, stiffened, stony, strengthened,
     thick-skinned, toughened, unblushing, vitrified