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indurate en · ADJ

Pronunciation

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• /ɪnˈdjʊɹət/

Meanings

1. Hardened.
   • The doctor removed a lot of indurate skin from his wound.
2. Obstinate, unfeeling, callous.
   • Now are they indurate ⁊ tough as Pharao ⁊ will not bow vnto any ryghte waie oꝛ oꝛdꝛe. 1528 October 12 (Gregorian calendar), William Tyndale, “A Compendious Rehersall of That Which Goeth Before”, in The Obediẽce of a Christen Man […], [Antwerp]: [Johannes Hoochstraten], →OCLC, folio clvj, recto:

Forms

Deriveds

subindurate · indurateness · induratize

indurate en · VERB

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /ɪnˈdjʊɹeɪt/

Meanings

1. To harden or to grow hard.
   • The ear, small and shapely, the arch of the foot, the curve in mouth and nostril, even the indurated hand dyed to the orange-tawny of the toucan's bill, a hand telling alike of the halyards and tar-bucket […] all this strangely indicated a lineage in direct contradiction to his lot. 1924, Herman Melville, chapter 2, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.:
   • The superficial temporal artery (or arteries) may become exquisitely tender to the touch and visibly indurated. 1970, Oliver Sacks, chapter 1, in Migraine, London: Picador, published 1995, page 15:
2. To make callous or unfeeling.
   • Oh, no ! it is the curse of revolutionary calamities to indurate the heart — the revolutionary impulse is too swift to admit of a pause at the sight of individual misery — the tempest is too loud to hear the wailings of the wretch that perishes beneath its billows […] 1801, Helen Maria Williams, Sketches of the State of Manners and Opinions in the French ..., Volume 1:
3. To inure; to strengthen; to make hardy or robust.
   • The afternoon was not particularly warm: our noses and eyes were running; his were dry. He was evidently indurated against natural hardships. 1992, Saul Bellow, “Winter in Tuscany”, in It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future, New York: Viking, published 1994, page 257:

Forms

Deriveds

induration · indurative

Synonyms

inure

Translations (9)

de festigen (To harden) · de abhärten (To make callous or unfeeling) · de verfestigen (To harden) · de verhärten (To harden) · bg втвърдявам се (To harden) · fr indurer (To harden) · bg закоравявам (To make callous or unfeeling) · de härten (To harden) · de unempfindlich machen (To make callous or unfeeling)