To grow hard; to harden or become hard. Clay indurates by drying, and by extreme heat.
Word of the Day: Catachrestical
1. To make hard. Extreme heat indurates clay. Some fossils are indurated by exposure to the air.
2. To make unfeeling; to deprive of sensibility; to render obdurate; as, to indurate the heart.
2. Without sensibility; unfeeling; obdurate.
To grow hard; to harden, or become hard; as, clay indurates by drying, and by heat.
1. To make hard; as, extreme heat indurates clay; some fossils are indurated by exposure to the air.
2. To make unfeeling; to deprive of sensibility; to render obdurate.
Hardness Roget’s Thesaurus §323
N. hardness, rigidity, renitence, renitency, inflexibility, temper, callosity, durity, induration, petrifaction, lapidification, lapidescence, vitrification, ossification, crystallization, stone, pebble, flint, marble, rock, fossil, crag, crystal, quartz, granite, adamant, bone, cartilage, hardware, heart of oak, block, board, deal board, iron, steel, cast iron, decarbonized iron, wrought iron, nail, brick, concrete, cement
Adj. hard, rigid, stubborn, stiff, firm, starch, starched, stark, unbending, unlimber, unyielding, inflexible, tense, indurate, indurated, gritty, proof, adamant, adamantine, adamantean, concrete, stony, granitic, calculous, lithic, vitreous, horny, corneous, bony, osseous, ossific, cartilaginous, hard as a rock, stiff as buckram, stiff as a poker, stiff as starch, stiff as a board
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