動(dòng)詞 indurate:

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

形容詞 indurate:

1. emotionally hardened
   同義詞：callous, pachydermatous

in.du.rate

v.（動(dòng)詞）
in.du.rat.ed,in.du.rat.ing,in.du.rates
v.tr.（及物動(dòng)詞）
To make hard; harden:
使硬化：使堅(jiān)硬；硬化：
例句：
soil that had been indurated by extremes of climate.
因氣候的極端變化而變硬的土壤

To inure, as to hardship or ridicule.
使習(xí)慣于：使習(xí)慣于，如艱苦或?qū)擂沃硾r
To make callous or obdurate:
使無(wú)感覺(jué)：使冷酷無(wú)情或無(wú)感覺(jué)：
例句：
.It is the curse of revolutionary calamities to indurate the heart.(Helen Maria Williams)
.是由革命的災(zāi)難使人們變得麻木不仁.(海倫·瑪麗亞·威廉斯)

v.intr.（不及物動(dòng)詞）
To grow hard; harden.
硬化：變硬；硬化
To become firmly fixed or established.
鞏固起來(lái)：牢牢地安上，牢牢地建立
adj.（形容詞）

Hardened; obstinate; unfeeling.
硬的，冷酷的：硬化的；頑固的；無(wú)感覺(jué)的

來(lái)源：
Latin indôr3re indôr3t-
拉丁語(yǔ) indôr3re indôr3t-
in- [intensive pref.] * see in- 2
in- [強(qiáng)調(diào)性前綴] *參見(jiàn) in-2
dôrus [hard] * see deru-
dôrus [硬的] *參見(jiàn) deru-

【引伸】
in.dura.tive
adj.（形容詞）