indurate

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to make callous or unfeeling
to harden or to grow hard
Indurated, obstinate, unfeeling, callous
to inure; to strengthen; to make hardy or robust
{f} make hard, harden; make stubborn or unfeeling; become callous or hardened, become accustomed
become hard or harder; "The wax hardened"
To make unfeeling; to deprive of sensibility; to render obdurate
become fixed or established; "indurated customs"
become fixed or established; "indurated customs
To make hard; as, extreme heat indurates clay; some fossils are indurated by exposure to the air
Hardened; not soft; indurated
To grow hard; to harden, or become hard; as, clay indurates by drying, and by heat
cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate; "He was inured to the cold"
emotionally hardened; "a callous indifference to suffering"; "cold-blooded and indurate to public opinion"
make hard or harder; "The cold hardened the butter"
Without sensibility; unfeeling; obdurate
induration
Hardness, or the process of becoming hard

The voice was harder than I had known, and not only in stony reaction to long floods of wholly just selfpity, also roughened with gin and smoke, perhaps also assimilated to New York induration, the hardness of culture as well as of pain.

ındurate
{v} to harden, to grow or make hard
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past of indurate
indurated
A compact rock hardened and solidified by post depositional chemical and physical alterations
indurated
Soils and sedimentary rocks which have become hardened or cemented
indurated
A very strongly cemented soil horizon See also consistence
indurated
Soils and sedimentary rocks which have become hardened or cemented Geology Ref KG
indurated
Hardened; as, indurated clay; an indurated heart
indurated
Rock or soil hardened or consolidated by pressure, cementation , or heat
indurated
Rendered hard
indurated
{s} hardened, made solid; made callous or stubborn
induration
{i} act or process of becoming rigid or hard; callousness, lack of feeling
induration
Hardening of an area of the body as a reaction to inflammation, hyperemia, or neoplastic infiltration, or (b) An area or part of the body that has undergone such a reaction. Most often this term is used to describe dermatologic findings
induration
Hardness of character, manner, sensibility, etc
induration
any pathological hardening or thickening of tissue
induration
The act of hardening, or the process of growing hard
induration
obduracy; stiffness; want of pliancy or feeling
induration
State of being indurated, or of having become hard
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