Word Meaning

indurate definition and meaning

a. Hardened; not soft; indurated.
a. Without sensibility; unfeeling; obdurate.
v. t. To make hard; as, extreme heat indurates clay; some fossils are indurated by exposure to the air.
v. t. To make unfeeling; to deprive of sensibility; to render obdurate.
v. i. To grow hard; to harden, or become hard; as, clay indurates by drying, and by heat.