indurate

动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To harden or to grow hard.
    — The ear, small and shapely, the arch of the foot, the curve in mouth and nostril, even the indurated hand dyed to the orange-tawny of the toucan's bill, a hand telling alike of the halyards and tar-bucket […] all this strangely indicated a lineage in direct contradiction to his lot.
  2. To make callous or unfeeling.
    — Oh, no ! it is the curse of revolutionary calamities to indurate the heart — the revolutionary impulse is too swift to admit of a pause at the sight of individual misery — the tempest is too loud to hear the wailings of the wretch that perishes beneath its billows […]
  3. To inure; to strengthen; to make hardy or robust.
    — The afternoon was not particularly warm: our noses and eyes were running; his were dry. He was evidently indurated against natural hardships.
形容词 adj.
  1. Hardened.
    — The doctor removed a lot of indurate skin from his wound.
  2. Obstinate, unfeeling, callous.
    — Now are they indurate ⁊ tough as Pharao ⁊ will not bow vnto any ryghte waie oꝛ oꝛdꝛe.

词形变化

indurates present,singular,third-person indurating participle,present indurated participle,past indurated past more indurate comparative most indurate superlative

词汇关系

近义词
inure
衍生词
induration indurative indurateness induratize subindurate
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