indurate

Adjective
  1. Emotionally hardened (synset 302114442)
    "a callous indifference to suffering"; "cold-blooded and indurate to public opinion"
    similar to: insensitive - deficient in human sensibility; not mentally or morally sensitive
    same as: callous, pachydermatous
Verb
  1. Become fixed or established (synset 200577461)
    "indurated customs"
    is a type of: change - undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature
  2. Make hard or harder (synset 200444339)
    "The cold hardened the butter"
    causes: harden, indurate - become hard or harder
    is a type of: change - undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature
    subtypes:
    • 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
    same as: harden
    verb group: harden, indurate - become hard or harder
  3. Become hard or harder (synset 200444071)
    "The wax hardened"
    is a type of: change - undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature
    subtypes:
    • 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
    same as: harden
    verb group: harden, indurate - make hard or harder
  4. Cause to accept or become hardened to;
    Habituate (synset 200273709)
    "He was inured to the cold"
    is a type of: accustom, habituate - make psychologically or physically used (to something)
    subtypes:
    same as: harden, inure

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