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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
indurate
    adj 1: emotionally hardened; "a callous indifference to
           suffering"; "cold-blooded and indurate to public opinion"
           [syn: callous, indurate, pachydermatous]
    v 1: become fixed or established; "indurated customs"
    2: make hard or harder; "The cold hardened the butter" [syn:
       harden, indurate] [ant: soften]
    3: become hard or harder; "The wax hardened" [syn: harden,
       indurate] [ant: soften]
    4: cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate; "He was
       inured to the cold" [syn: inure, harden, indurate]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Indurate \In"du*rate\, a. [L. induratus, p. p. of indurare to
   harden. See Endure.]
   [1913 Webster]
   1. Hardened; not soft; indurated. --Tyndale.
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   2. Without sensibility; unfeeling; obdurate.
      [1913 Webster]

3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Indurate \In"du*rate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Indurated; p. pr. &
   vb. n. Indurating.]
   [1913 Webster]
   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.
      [1913 Webster]

4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Indurate \In"du*rate\, v. i.
   To grow hard; to harden, or become hard; as, clay indurates
   by drying, and by heat.
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Thesaurus Results for Indurate:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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