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in·du·rate (ĭńdə-rāt́, -dyə-)

[Latin indūrāre, indūrāt-, in-, intensive pref.; see in–2, + dūrus, hard.]

verb: -rat·ed, -rat·ing, -rates. 

transitive verb 

  1. To make hard; harden: soil that had been indurated by extremes of climate.
  2. To inure, as to hardship or ridicule.
  3. To make callous or obdurate: “It is the curse of revolutionary calamities to indurate the heart” (Helen Maria Williams)

intransitive verb 

  1. To grow hard; harden.
  2. To become firmly fixed or established.

adjective 

Hardened; obstinate; unfeeling.

derivatives

ińdu·rátive
adjective