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Indurate vs Infiltrate - What's the difference?

indurate | infiltrate |

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

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Indurated, obstinate, unfeeling, callous.
  • Verb

    (en-verb)
  • to harden or to grow hard
  • to make callous or unfeeling
  • to inure; to strengthen; to make hardy or robust.
  • Synonyms

    * inure

    Derived terms

    * induration * indurative

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Hardened; not soft; indurated.
  • (Tyndale)
  • Without sensibility; unfeeling; obdurate.
  • References

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    Anagrams

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    infiltrate

    English

    Verb

    (infiltrat)
  • To surreptitiously penetrate, enter or gain access.
  • * Addison
  • The water infiltrates through the porous rock.
  • 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.
  • Derived terms

    * infiltration * infiltrative * infiltrator ----