indurate

indurate has 10 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 8.

Definitions

• 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.
• v.. cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate; "He was inured to the cold"
• v.. become hard or harder; "The wax hardened"
• v.. make hard or harder; "The cold hardened the butter"
• v.. become fixed or established; "indurated customs"
• a.. emotionally hardened; "a callous indifference to suffering"; "cold-blooded and indurate to public opinion"