indurate: Meaning and Definition of

in•du•rate

1. to make hard; harden, as rock, tissue, etc.: Cold indurates the soil.
2. to make callous, stubborn, or unfeeling: transgressions that indurate the heart.
3. to inure; accustom: to indurate oneself to privation and suffering.
4. to make enduring; confirm; establish: to indurate custom through practice.

1. to become hard; harden.
2. to become established or confirmed.

1. hardened; unfeeling; callous; inured.