| 单词 | indurate |
| 释义 | indurate (once / 11130 pages) vadj WORD FAMILY indurate: indurated, indurately, indurates, indurating, induration+/induration: indurations USAGE EXAMPLES“Is it indurated?” she asks her daughter, showing her a lump on the back of her neck. “Is the texture peau d’orange?” New York Times(Jan 27, 2016) Pick up again his indurate book, Dreams from My Father, and see the harsh truth. Newsweek(Jul 18, 2013) The common description of “the Oriental” as indurated in his antagonism to the alien conqueror here perhaps has some truth in it. Various, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edit...(2012) 1v make hard or harder Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper harden harden become hard or harder soften make soft or softer face-harden harden steel by adding carbon calluscause a callus to form on anneal, normalize, temperbring to a desired consistency, texture, or hardness by a process of gradually heating and cooling change undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature 2v become hard or harder Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper harden harden make hard or harder soften become soft or softer encrust, incrust form a crust or a hard layer callusform a callus or calluses calcifybecome impregnated with calcium salts curemake (substances) hard and improve their usability efflorescebecome encrusted with crystals due to evaporation change undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature 3v cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate Syn|Hypo|Hyper harden, inure callous, cauterise, cauterize make insensitive or callous; deaden feelings or morals brace oneself for, prepare for, steel oneself against, steel onself forprepare mentally or emotionally for something unpleasant accustom, habituate make psychologically or physically used (to something) 4v become fixed or established indurated customs Hyper change undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature 5adj emotionally hardened cold-blooded and indurate to public opinion Syn callous, pachydermatous insensitive deficient in human sensibility; not mentally or morally sensitive |
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