Indurate

a.	1.
	1.	Hardened; not soft; indurated.
	2.	Without sensibility; unfeeling; obdurate.
v. t.	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.
v. i.	1.	To grow hard; to harden, or become hard; as, clay indurates by drying, and by heat.

Verb	1.	indurate - become fixed or established; "indurated customs"
	2.	indurate - make hard or harder; "The cold hardened the butter" Synonyms: harden
	3.	indurate - become hard or harder; "The wax hardened" Synonyms: harden
	4.	indurate - cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate; "He was inured to the cold" Synonyms: inure, harden
Adj.	1.	indurate - emotionally hardened; "a callous indifference to suffering"; "cold-blooded and indurate to public opinion" Synonyms: callous, thick-skinned, pachydermatous

anneal, backed, brutalize, cake, calcified, calcify, callous, calloused, case harden, case-hardened, concrete, congeal, cornify, crusted, crusty, crystallized, dry, firm, fossilize, fossilized, granulated, harden, hardened, hornified, incrusted, indurated, inure, lapidified, lapidify, lithify, ossified, ossify, petrified, petrify, reinforced, rigidified, sclerotic, set, solidified, solidify, steel, steeled, stiffened, strengthened, temper, toughen, toughened, vitrified, vitrify

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