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動詞

indurate (三人称単数 現在形 indurates, 現在分詞 indurating, 過去形および過去分詞形 indurated)

1. To harden or to grow hard.
   • 1924, Herman Melville, Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co., Chapter 2, [1]

     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.

   • 1970, Oliver Sacks, Migraine, London: Picador, 1995, Chapter 1, p. 15,

     The superficial temporal artery (または arteries) may become exquisitely tender to the touch and visibly indurated.

2. To make callous or unfeeling.
   • 1801, Helen Maria Williams, Sketches of the State of Manners and Opinions in the French ..., Volume 1

     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.
   • 1992, Saul Bellow, "Winter in Tuscany" in It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future, New York: Viking, 1994, p. 257,

     The afternoon was not particularly warm: our noses and eyes were running; his were dry. He was evidently indurated against natural hardships.

同意語

• inure
• (harden): See also Thesaurus:harden
• (strengthen): See also Thesaurus:strengthen

派生語

• induration
• indurative