INDURATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does indurate mean? 

• INDURATE (adjective)
  The adjective INDURATE has 1 sense:

1. emotionally hardened

  Familiarity information: INDURATE used as an adjective is very rare.

• INDURATE (verb)
  The verb INDURATE has 4 senses:

1. become fixed or established

2. make hard or harder

3. become hard or harder

4. cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate

  Familiarity information: INDURATE used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INDURATE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Emotionally hardened

Synonyms:

callous; indurate; pachydermatous

Context example:

cold-blooded and indurate to public opinion

Similar:

insensitive (deficient in human sensibility; not mentally or morally sensitive)

• INDURATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they indurate    ... he / she / it indurates   
Past simple: indurated   
Past participle: indurated   
-ing form: indurating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Become fixed or established

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

indurated customs

Hypernyms (to "indurate" is one way to...):

change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sense 2

Meaning:

Make hard or harder

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

harden; indurate

Context example:

The cold hardened the butter

Hypernyms (to "indurate" is one way to...):

change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)

Cause:

harden; indurate (become hard or harder)

Verb group:

harden; indurate (become hard or harder)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "indurate"):

face-harden (harden steel by adding carbon)

callus (cause a callus to form on)

anneal; normalize; temper (bring to a desired consistency, texture, or hardness by a process of gradually heating and cooling)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Derivation:

induration (any pathological hardening or thickening of tissue)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Become hard or harder

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

harden; indurate

Context example:

The wax hardened

Hypernyms (to "indurate" is one way to...):

change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)

Verb group:

harden; indurate (make hard or harder)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "indurate"):

encrust; incrust (form a crust or a hard layer)

callus (form a callus or calluses)

calcify (become impregnated with calcium salts)

cure (make (substances) hard and improve their usability)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

Derivation:

induration (any pathological hardening or thickening of tissue)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

harden; indurate; inure

Context example:

He was inured to the cold

Hypernyms (to "indurate" is one way to...):

accustom; habituate (make psychologically or physically used (to something))

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "indurate"):

callous; cauterise; cauterize (make insensitive or callous; deaden feelings or morals)

brace oneself for; prepare for; steel oneself against; steel onself for (prepare mentally or emotionally for something unpleasant)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP

 Context examples 

It is characterized by the presence of white, indurated plaques, epidermal atrophy, and fibrosis of the upper dermis.

(Lichen Sclerosus et Atrophicus, NCI Thesaurus)

A chronic, atrophic skin disease characterized by white, angular, flat, well-defined, indurated papules with an erythematous halo and follicular, black, keratotic plugs.

(Lichen Sclerosus et Atrophicus, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)