indurate
indurate is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 4 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.Without sensibility; unfeeling; obdurate.
- 2.To make hard; as, extreme heat indurates clay; some fossils are indurated by exposure to the air.
- 3.To make unfeeling; to deprive of sensibility; to render obdurate.
- 4.To grow hard; to harden, or become hard; as, clay indurates by drying, and by heat.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- adamant
- adamantean
- adamantine
- block
- board
- bone
- bony
- brick
- buckram
- calculous
- callosity
- cartilage
- cartilaginous
- cast
- cement
- concrete
- corneous
- crag
- crystal
- crystallization
- deal
- durity
- firm
- flint
- fossil
- granite
- granitic
- gritty
- hard
- harden
- hardness
- hardware
- heart
- horny
- indurated
- induration
- inflexibility
- inflexible
- iron
- lapidescence
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
Related questions
Reverse-dictionary questions
Definition-first questions whose answer is indurate.
- What is without sensibility; unfeeling; obdurate called?
- What is to make hard; as, extreme heat indurates clay; some fossils are indurated by exposure to the air called?
- What is to make unfeeling; to deprive of sensibility; to render obdurate called?
- What is to grow hard; to harden, or become hard; as, clay indurates by drying, and by heat called?
Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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