indurate – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
indurate
v.
make hard, harden; make stubborn or unfeeling; become callous or hardened, become accustomed
indurate
Verb
1. become fixed or established; "indurated customs"
(hypernym) change
2. make hard or harder; "The cold hardened the butter"
(synonym) harden
(hypernym) change
(hyponym) face-harden
(cause) harden
(verb-group) harden
(derivation) sclerosis, induration
3. become hard or harder; "The wax hardened"
(synonym) harden
(hypernym) change
(hyponym) encrust, incrust
(verb-group) harden
(derivation) sclerosis, induration
4. cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate; "He was inured to the cold"
(synonym) inure, harden
(hypernym) habituate, accustom
(hyponym) callous, cauterize, cauterise
Adjective
1. emotionally hardened; "a callous indifference to suffering"; "cold-blooded and indurate to public opinion"
(synonym) callous, thick-skinned, pachydermatous
(similar) insensitive
Indurate
(v. t.)
To make unfeeling; to deprive of sensibility; to render obdurate.
(v. t.)
To make hard; as, extreme heat indurates clay; some fossils are indurated by exposure to the air.
(v. i.)
To grow hard; to harden, or become hard; as, clay indurates by drying, and by heat.
(a.)
Without sensibility; unfeeling; obdurate.
(a.)
Hardened; not soft; indurated.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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indurate
v. a.
1. make hard
کڑا کرنا, سخت کرنا
2. make unfeeling
کٹھور کرنا, پتھرانا
indurate
n. v.
کڑا ہونا, سخت ہونا, بے حس ہو جانا, دل پتھر کرلينا, سخت دل ہو جانا
indurate
adj.
1. not soft
سخت, کڑا, پتھر
2. unfeeling
ہٹيلا, سنگ دل
indurate
n.
indurate
Synonyms and related words:
anneal, backed, brutalize, cake, calcified, calcify, callous, calloused, case harden, case-hardened, concrete, congeal, cornify, crusted, crusty, crystallized, dry, firm, fossilize, fossilized, granulated, harden, hardened, hornified, incrusted, indurated, inure, lapidified, lapidify, lithify, ossified, ossify, petrified, petrify, reinforced, rigidified, sclerotic, set, solidified, solidify, steel, steeled, stiffened, strengthened, temper, toughen, toughened, vitrified, vitrify
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
