indurate
[verb]
Synonyms: harden, cake, concrete, congeal, dry, set, solidify

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in·du·rate (ĭndə-rāt, -dyə-)
v. in·du·rat·ed, in·du·rat·ing, in·du·rates
v. tr.
► To make hard; harden:
soil that had been indurated by extremes of climate.
► To inure, as to hardship or ridicule.
► To make callous or obdurate: “It is the curse of revolutionary calamities to indurate the heart” (Helen Maria Williams).
v. intr.
► To grow hard; harden.
► To become firmly fixed or established.
adj. (ĭnd-rĭt, -dyə-)
Hardened; obstinate; unfeeling.

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indurate
[Latin indrāre, indrāt-  : in-, intensive pref.; see in-² + drus, hard; see deru- in Indo-European Roots.]

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indurate
indu·rative adj.

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