indurated's Usage Examples:

The common description of " the Oriental " as indurated in his antagonism to the alien conqueror here perhaps has some truth in it.

They are rarely metamorphosed to the point of recrystallization, though locally shales are altered to roofing slates, sandstones are indurated, limestones slightly marblized, and coals, originally bituminous, are changed to anthracite in northern Pennsylvania, and to graphite in Rhode Island.

If left, they usually suppurate and open outwards by sloughing of the skin, but they may subside spontaneously, or remain hard and indurated.

Next in antiquity to hydraulic lime is Roman cement, prepared by heating an indurated marl occurring naturally in nodules.

As in all such cases, the plain consists of marine (with some estuarine and flu viatile) stratified deposits, more or less indurated, which were laid down when the land stood lower and the sea had its shore line farther inland than to-day.

One month later he returned with this large indurated abscess, thought to be in the inguinal canal.

Both methods become difficult to implement if large boulders have to be propped up or if explosives have to be used on indurated breccias.

Normally the pleon carries six pairs of two-branched appendages, of which the first three are much articulated flexible swimming feet, the last three few-jointed comparatively indurated uropods.

In 1779 three beds of rock-salt were discovered at Lawton, separated from one another by layers of indurated clay.

The rocks in the Arakan range and its spurs are metamorphic, and comprise clay, slates, ironstone and indurated sandstone; towards the S.

Synonyms:

pachydermatous, insensitive, callous,

Antonyms:

sensitive, tender, abstain, stiffen,