Indurate /(?)/

In·du·rate

Indurate

a.
  1. Hardened; not soft; indurated.
  2. Without sensibility; unfeeling; obdurate.

Indurate

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Indurated; p. pr. & vb. n. Indurating

  1. To make hard; as, extreme heat indurates clay; some fossils are indurated by exposure to the air.
  2. To make unfeeling; to deprive of sensibility; to render obdurate.

Indurate

v. i.
  1. To grow hard; to harden, or become hard; as, clay indurates by drying, and by heat.