1. To make a substance solid: The long summer with the burning sun quite indurated the soil so that not even weeds could grow there.

While making candles, the group of children watched and saw how the melted wax indurated and became hard and solid.

2. To become established or fixed: The Christmas festivities were quite indurated in the family traditions and were looked forward to; especially, by the children every year.
3. Etymology: from Latin induratum, "hardened"; from in-, "into, within, toward" + durus, "hard".

1. Characterizing something as being callous, cold-blooded or remorseless: Some television programs have a character who is presented as an indurated person who is emotionally hardened and shameless as he or she is committing criminal acts.
2. Descriptive of an object as solid or physically toughened: When a person has trained at a fitness studio for a long time and his or her muscles have become very firm, but not as hard as a rock or bone, they can be regarded as being indurated.