indurate

动词 indurate:

1. become fixed or established
2. make hard or harder
   同义词：harden
3. become hard or harder
   同义词：harden
4. cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate
   同义词：inure, harden

形容词 indurate:

1. emotionally hardened
   同义词：callous, pachydermatous

in.du.rate

v.（动词）
in.du.rat.ed,in.du.rat.ing,in.du.rates
v.tr.（及物动词）
To make hard; harden:
使硬化：使坚硬；硬化：
例句：
soil that had been indurated by extremes of climate.
因气候的极端变化而变硬的土壤

To inure, as to hardship or ridicule.
使习惯于：使习惯于，如艰苦或尴尬之境况
To make callous or obdurate:
使无感觉：使冷酷无情或无感觉：
例句：
.It is the curse of revolutionary calamities to indurate the heart.(Helen Maria Williams)
.是由革命的灾难使人们变得麻木不仁.(海伦·玛丽亚·威廉斯)

v.intr.（不及物动词）
To grow hard; harden.
硬化：变硬；硬化
To become firmly fixed or established.
巩固起来：牢牢地安上，牢牢地建立
adj.（形容词）

Hardened; obstinate; unfeeling.
硬的，冷酷的：硬化的；顽固的；无感觉的

来源：
Latin indôr3re indôr3t-
拉丁语 indôr3re indôr3t-
in- [intensive pref.] * see in- 2
in- [强调性前缀] *参见 in-2
dôrus [hard] * see deru-
dôrus [硬的] *参见 deru-

【引伸】
in.dura.tive
adj.（形容词）