🔤 Indurate (Verb / Adjective)

IPA: /ˈɪndjʊreɪt/

✨ Perfect for describing someone whose heart—or habits—have become resistant to change or emotion.

🧠 Meaning

(v.) To harden, especially emotionally or physically. (adj.) Emotionally hardened; stubborn or unfeeling.

✍️ Example Sentences

🔹 Years of hardship indurated his heart to suffering.

🔹 The judge remained indurate, unmoved by the defendant’s tears.

📜 Word Origin

From Latin induratus, past participle of indurare meaning "to make hard" (in- + durus, "hard").

💡 Did You Know?

Originally used in medicine to describe hardened tissue, indurate later evolved to describe emotional callousness.

🏷️ Related Words

#harden #callous #toughen #desensitize #obdurate #unfeeling

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