indurate

v., -rat·ed, -rat·ing, -rates.

v.tr.

1. To make hard; harden: soil that had been indurated by extremes of climate.
2. To inure, as to hardship or ridicule.
3. To make callous or obdurate: "It is the curse of revolutionary calamities to indurate the heart" (Helen Maria Williams).

v.intr.

1. To grow hard; harden.
2. To become firmly fixed or established.

adj. (ĭn'dʊ-rĭt, -dyə-)
Hardened; obstinate; unfeeling.

[Latin indūrāre, indūrāt- : in-, intensive pref.; see in-² + dūrus, hard.]

indurative in'du·ra'tive adj.

(IN-doo-rayt, -dyoo-)

verb tr.
1. To make hardy, inured, accustomed.
2. To make callous or unfeeling.

verb intr.
1. To make hard.
2. To become established.
adjective (IN-doo-rit, -dyoo-)
Hardened; callous; obstinate.

Etymology
From Latin indurare (to harden), from durare (to last), from durus (hard). Ultimately from the Indo-European root deru-/dreu- (to be firm) that's the source of such other words as truth, trust, betroth, tree, endure, and druid

Usage
"Do you need to show exploding heads to illustrate the tragedy of war? Only, surely, if your audience is so indurated to on-screen suffering, that nothing else will pierce its hide." — Catherine Bennett; Shootists; The Guardian (London, UK); Sep 12, 1998.

"His person, though muscular, was rather attenuated than full; but every nerve and muscle appeared strung and indurated by unremitted exposure and toil." — James Fenimore Cooper; The Last of the Mohicans; 1826.

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verb

1. To make or become physically hard: cake, concrete, congeal, dry, harden, petrify, set¹, solidify. See solid/liquid/consistency.
2. To make resistant to hardship, especially through continued exposure: acclimate, acclimatize, caseharden, harden, season, toughen. See continue/stop/pause, resist/yield.

Hardened; abnormally hard.

Dansk (Danish)
v. tr. - hærde, forhærde
v. intr. - blive forhærdet
adj. - forhærdet

Nederlands (Dutch)
gehard, (ver)harden, ingeburgerd raken

Français (French)
v. tr. - endurcir, rendre dur, rendre insensible
v. intr. - endurcir, se fixer, s'établir
adj. - endurci, insensible, obstiné

Deutsch (German)
adj. - verhärtet, gefühllos
v. - hart werden, gefühllos machen

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - σκληρός, αποσκληρυμένος
v. - σκληραίνω

Italiano (Italian)
rigido

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - endurecido, obstinado
v. - endurecer

Русский (Russian)
затвердевший, черствый, упрямый, делать твердым, делать бесчувственным

Español (Spanish)
v. tr. - endurecer, indurar, empedernir
v. intr. - endurecerse, empedernirse
adj. - terco, testarudo, inflexible

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - hårdnad, härdad
v. - härda (äv. bildl.), förhärda(s), hårdna, bli inrotad (om sed)

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
使硬化, 使冷酷, 使坚硬, 使无感觉, 硬化, 变硬, 巩固起来, 坚固的, 无感觉的

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
v. tr. - 使硬化, 使冷酷, 使堅硬, 使無感覺
v. intr. - 硬化, 變硬, 鞏固起來
adj. - 堅固的, 無感覺的

한국어 (Korean)
v. tr. - 굳히다, 무감각하게 하다, 익숙하게 하다
v. intr. - 굳어지다, 무감각하게 되다, 익숙해지다
adj. - 굳어진, 무감각한

日本語 (Japanese)
v. - 無感覚にする, 確立する, 固くなる, 根づく, 堅くする
adj. - 硬化した, 無感覚な

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) قاس, (فعل) يرسخ, يمرس,‏

עברית (Hebrew)
v. tr. - ‮הקשיח‬
v. intr. - ‮השתרש‬
adj. - ‮קשיח‬

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