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indurate

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indurate (indurates, present participle indurating; 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.
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 […]
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.

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Adjective

indurate

Hardened, obstinate, unfeeling, callous.
The doctor removed a lot of indurate skin from his wound.
- Now are they indurate and tough as Pharaoh, and will not bow unto any right way or order.

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