🔤 Indurate (Verb)

IPA: //ˈɪndjʊreɪt//

✨ Use indurate when life’s struggles have hardened someone’s body—or their heart.

🧠 Meaning

To harden, especially the heart, feelings, or character.

✍️ Example Sentences

🔹 Years of hardship indurated his spirit against compassion.

🔹 She remained indurate, unmoved by the emotional pleas.

📜 Word Origin

From Latin induratus (“hardened”), from in- (“into”) + durus (“hard”).

💡 Did You Know?

Originally used in medical contexts to describe hardened tissue, indurate is also used metaphorically for callousness or emotional toughness.

🏷️ Related Words

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

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