| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Of Indurate.[Websters]. | |
| Verb Past Tense | 1. Past tense conjugation of the verb indurate.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adverb Base (indurately) | 1. Virtually never used adverbial inflection of the rarely used adjective indurate.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (indurate) | 1. Become fixed or established; "indurated customs".[Wordnet]. 2. Make hard or harder.[Wordnet]. 3. Become hard or harder.[Wordnet]. 4. Cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate.[Wordnet]. 5. To make hard; as, extreme heat indurates clay; some fossils are indurated by exposure to the air.[Websters]. 6. To make unfeeling; to deprive of sensibility; to render obdurate.[Websters]. 7. To grow hard; to harden, or become hard; as, clay indurates by drying, and by heat.[Websters]. 8. Base verb from the following inflections: indurating, indurated, indurates, indurater, induraters, induratingly and induratedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adjective | 1. Hardened; as, indurated clay; an indurated heart.[Websters]
2. Being hard, concrete, rugged, brawny or solid. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. Being callous, case-hardened, sclerosed or heartless. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. Being sclerotic. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. Being impassive. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. Being inveterate or double-dyed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. Being indisposed.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "INDURATED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Specialty Definition: INDURATED
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] Hardened; made obdurate.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Environment | Of a rock, characterized by a solid, hard structure, hardened by pressure, heat, or cementation. (references) | ||
| Geology | Hardened. (references) | ||
| Mining | 1: A very strongly cemented soil horizon. See also consistence. (references) | 2: Said of a rock or soil hardened or consolidated by pressure, cementation, or heat. (references) | |
| Water | Cemented, hardened, or a rocklike condition. (references) | ||
| Wiktionary | [Verb] Simple past tense and past participle of indurate. (references) | ||
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Common Expressions: INDURATED
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Indurated clay | Hardened clay. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Indurated talc | An impure, slaty talc, with a nearly compact texture, and greater hardness than common talc; -- called also talc slate . Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
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Specialty Expressions: INDURATED
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Indurated layer | Aerospace | A soil layer that has become hardened, generally by cementation of soil particles. (references) | |
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