indurate

Meaning

adjective

1. emotionally hardened
   “a callous indifference to suffering”

verb

1. become fixed or established
   “indurated customs”
2. make hard or harder
   “The cold hardened the butter”
3. become hard or harder
   “The wax hardened”
4. cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate
   “He was inured to the cold”

Synonyms for indurate

• callous
• pachydermatous
• insensitive
• harden
• inure