| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Present participle | 1. Present participle 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] | |
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Date "INDURATING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1828. (references) |
Specialty Definition: INDURATING
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] Hardening; rendering insensible.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | [Verb] Present participle of indurate. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | Top | ||
