- 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.
- to make or become hard or callous
- to make or become hardy
- hardened, callous, or unfeeling