indurate

indurate is a 8-letter English word with 10 senses as adjective, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Hardened; not soft; indurated. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

8 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 11 · 10 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Hardened; not soft; indurated.
2. adjective. Without sensibility; unfeeling; obdurate.
3. transitive verb. To make hard; as, extreme heat indurates clay; some fossils are indurated by exposure to the air.
4. transitive verb. To make unfeeling; to deprive of sensibility; to render obdurate.
5. intransitive verb. To grow hard; to harden, or become hard; as, clay indurates by drying, and by heat.
6. verb. cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate

   "He was inured to the cold"

   Synonyms: harden, inure

7. verb. become hard or harder

   "The wax hardened"

   Synonyms: harden

8. verb. make hard or harder

   "The cold hardened the butter"

   Synonyms: harden

9. verb. become fixed or established

   "indurated customs"

10. adjective. emotionally hardened

    "a callous indifference to suffering"

    "cold-blooded and indurate to public opinion"

    Synonyms: callous, pachydermatous

Synonyms

harden, inure, callous, pachydermatous

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in indurate:

ruinated, turdinae, urinated

Common word forms

indurated, indurates, indurating

Words from these letters

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