| Indurate 1. (a.) Hardened; not soft; indurate. 2. (a.) Without sensibility; unfeeling; obdurate. 3. (v. t.) To make hard; as, extreme heat indurates clay; some fossils are indurate by exposure to the air. 4. (v. t.) To make unfeeling; to deprive of sensibility; to render obdurate. 5. (v. i.) To grow hard; to harden, or become hard; as, clay indurates by drying, and by heat. Thesaurus Entries 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 |