indurate
English
Pronunciation
- (verb) IPA(key): /ɪnˈdjʊɹeɪt/
- (adjective) IPA(key): /ɪnˈdjʊɹət/
Verb
indurate (third-person singular simple present indurates, present participle indurating, simple past and past participle indurated)
- To harden or to grow hard.
- 1924, Herman Melville, Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co., Chapter 2,
- 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.
- 1970, Oliver Sacks, Migraine, London: Picador, 1995, Chapter 1, p. 15,
- The superficial temporal artery (or arteries) may become exquisitely tender to the touch and visibly indurated.
- 1924, Herman Melville, Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co., Chapter 2,
- To make callous or unfeeling.
- 1801, Helen Maria Williams, Sketches of the State of Manners and Opinions in the French ..., Volume 1
- 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
- To inure; to strengthen; to make hardy or robust.
- 1992, Saul Bellow, "Winter in Tuscany" in It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future, New York: Viking, 1994, p. 257,
- 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, 1994, p. 257,
Synonyms
- inure
- (harden): See also Thesaurus:harden
- (strengthen): See also Thesaurus:strengthen
Derived terms
Translations
To harden
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To make callous or unfeeling
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References
- “indurate” in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989, →ISBN.
Italian
Verb
indurate
Latin
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