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Indurate

This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

v. To make hard; harden: soil that had been indurated by extremes of climate.

v. To inure, as to hardship or ridicule.

v. To make callous or obdurate: "It is the curse of revolutionary calamities to indurate the heart” ( Helen Maria Williams).

verb-intransitive. To grow hard; harden.

verb-intransitive. To become firmly fixed or established.

adj. Hardened; obstinate; unfeeling.

adj. Indurated, obstinate, unfeeling, callous.

v. to harden or to grow hard

v. to make callous or unfeeling

v. to inure; to strengthen; to make hardy or robust.

adj. Hardened; not soft; indurated.

adj. Without sensibility; unfeeling; obdurate.

v. To make hard

v. To make unfeeling; to deprive of sensibility; to render obdurate.

verb-intransitive. To grow hard; to harden, or become hard.

To grow hard; harden; become hard: as, clay indurates by drying and by extreme heat.

To become fixed or habitual; pass into use; inure.

To make hard: as, extreme heat indurates clay.

To make hard in feeling; deprive of sensibility; render obdurate.

Hardened; unfeeling; indurated.

v. cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate

v. become hard or harder

adj. emotionally hardened

v. become fixed or established

v. make hard or harder

"Usage: We see so much bad news every day that we risk becoming an indurate society, incapable of deep feeling until great tragedy."

insensitive

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Words that are more generic or abstract

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Words with the same meaning

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