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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
indurate is a verb and adjective meaning "become fixed or established". It carries 5 recorded senses.
make hard or harder
“The cold hardened the butter”
cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate
“He was inured to the cold”
emotionally hardened
“a callous indifference to suffering”
“cold-blooded and indurate to public opinion”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for indurate come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.