v. /in"doo rayt', -dyoo-/ ; adj. /in"doo rit, -dyoo-; in door"it, -dyoor"-/ , v. , indurated, indurating , adj.
v.t.
1. to make hard; harden, as rock, tissue, etc.: Cold indurates the soil.
2. to make callous, stubborn, or unfeeling: transgressions that indurate the heart.
3. to inure; accustom: to indurate oneself to privation and suffering.
4. to make enduring; confirm; establish: to indurate custom through practice.
v.i.
5. to become hard; harden.
6. to become established or confirmed.
adj.
7. hardened; unfeeling; callous; inured.
[ 1375-1425; late ME indurat induratus ptp. of indurare to harden. See IN- 2 , DURE 1 , -ATE 1 ]