INDURATE
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)
Meaning:
Emotionally hardened
Synonyms:
callous; indurate; pachydermatous
Context examples:
a callous indifference to suffering / cold-blooded and indurate to public opinion
Similar:
insensitive (deficient in human sensibility; not mentally or morally sensitive)
• INDURATE (verb)
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
Meaning:
Make hard or harder
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
indurate; harden
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)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "indurate"):
face-harden (harden steel by adding carbon)
callus (cause a callus to form on)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
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)
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
Meaning:
Cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
inure; indurate; harden
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
