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indurating

verb , present participle of indurate

Synonyms and Antonyms of indurating

1 to become physically firm or solid

clay that had been indurated by long exposure to the summer sun

Synonyms of indurating

concreting, congealing, firming (up), freezing, hardening, setting, solidifying

Words Related to indurating

caking, callusing, encrusting (also incrusting)

clotting, coagulating, gelating, gelatinizing, gelling, jelling, jellying, stiffening, thickening

calcifying, crystallizing (also crystalizing), ossifying, petrifying, rigidifying

annealing, case-hardening, tempering

Near Antonyms of indurating

deliquescing, dissolving, fluxing, fusing, melting, smelting, thawing, unfreezing

Antonyms of indurating

liquefying (also liquifying), softening

2 to make able to withstand physical hardship, strain, or exposure

such a brutal upbringing could only callous his soul and indurate his heart to the suffering of others

Synonyms of indurating

fortifying, hardening, inuring, seasoning, steeling, strengthening, toughening

Words Related to indurating

acclimating, acclimatizing, adapting, adjusting

annealing, tempering

invigorating, vitalizing

bolstering, boosting, bracing, buttressing, enforcing, forearming, propping (up), reinforcing (also reenforcing), supporting

breaking in, limbering (up), training

accustoming, conditioning, habituating, naturalizing

Near Antonyms of indurating

emasculating, enervating, enfeebling, exhausting, sapping, weakening

crippling, debilitating, hamstringing, incapacitating

Antonyms of indurating

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