indurate

About 0.01 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To harden or to grow hard.
2. verb To make callous or unfeeling.
3. verb To inure; to strengthen; to make hardy or robust.
4. adjective Hardened.

   The doctor removed a lot of indurate skin from his wound.

5. adjective Obstinate, unfeeling, callous.

Similar words

thick-skinned callous insensitive endure calcify steel sclerotise anneal caseharden case harden

Often followed by

and the heart their at

Word family

indurated indurates indurating