indurated

English

Verb

indurated

1. simple past and past participle of indurate

Adjective

indurated (not comparable)

1. Hardened in character.
   • 1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle:

     And the ‘wailing noise,’ which had induced the prosaic, indurated London cabman to get twice off his box to see what was the matter, what anguish had been provocative of that?

2. (soil science, botany) Hardened.

Derived terms

• nonindurated
• semiindurated
• subindurated
• unindurated

Anagrams

• unitarded