Indurate vs Infiltrate - What's the difference?
indurate | infiltrate |
to harden or to grow hard
to make callous or unfeeling
to inure; to strengthen; to make hardy or robust.
Hardened; not soft; indurated.
Without sensibility; unfeeling; obdurate.
To surreptitiously penetrate, enter or gain access.
* Addison
To cause a fluid to pass through a substance by filtration.
To send soldiers through gaps in the enemy line.
(of an intravenous needle) To move from a vein, remaining in the body.
As verbs the difference between indurate and infiltrate
is that indurate is to harden or to grow hard while infiltrate is to surreptitiously penetrate, enter or gain access.As an adjective indurate
is indurated, obstinate, unfeeling, callous or indurate can be hardened; not soft; indurated.indurate
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Verb
(en-verb)Synonyms
* inureDerived terms
* induration * indurativeAdjective
(en adjective)- (Tyndale)
References
*Anagrams
* ----infiltrate
English
Verb
(infiltrat)- The water infiltrates through the porous rock.