to make hard; harden, as rock, tissue, etc.

Cold indurates the soil.

to make callous, stubborn, or unfeeling

transgressions that indurate the heart.

to inure; accustom

to indurate oneself to privation and suffering.

to make enduring; confirm; establish

to indurate custom through practice.

to become hard; harden.

to become established or confirmed.

hardened; unfeeling; callous; inured.

verb

cake , concrete , congeal , dry , petrify , set , solidify , acclimate , acclimatize , caseharden , season , toughen