意味(日本語)

固める、頑固になる ◇L.durus(＝hard)

語源

• dur- : L.durare = to last(長続きする)

意味(英語)

• (verb-transitive) To make hard; harden: soil that had been indurated by extremes of climate.
• (verb-transitive) To inure, as to hardship or ridicule.
• (verb-transitive) To make callous or obdurate: "It is the curse of revolutionary calamities to indurate the heart” ( Helen Maria Williams).
• (verb-intransitive) To grow hard; harden.
• (verb-intransitive) To become firmly fixed or established.

例文

• Usage: We see so much bad news every day that we risk becoming an indurate society, incapable of deep feeling until great tragedy.