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Indurate
- adjective - become fixed or established; "indurated customs"
- become hard or harder; "The wax hardened"
- cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate; "He was inured to the cold"
- emotionally hardened; "a callous indifference to suffering"; "cold-blooded and indurate to public opinion"
- make hard or harder; "The cold hardened the butter"
Irrorate
- - To sprinkle or moisten with dew; to bedew.
Lacerate
- adjective - cut or tear irregularly
- deeply hurt the feelings of; distress; "his lacerating remarks"
- having edges that are jagged from injury
- irregularly slashed and jagged as if torn; "lacerate leaves"
Levirate
- noun - the biblical institution whereby a man must marry the widow of his childless brother in order to maintain the brother's line
Liberate
- verb - give equal rights to; of women and minorities
- grant freedom to; "The students liberated their slaves upon graduating from the university"
- grant freedom to; free from confinement
- release (gas or energy) as a result of a chemical reaction or physical decomposition
- To release, to enable to be free
Literate
- adjective - a person who can read and write
- able to read and write
- knowledgeable and educated in one or several fields; "computer literate"
- versed in literature; dealing with literature
Liturate
- - Having indistinct spots, paler at their margins.
Lustrate
- verb - purify by means of a ritual; also used in post-Communist countries to refer to the political cleansing of former officials
Macerate
- verb - become soft or separate and disintegrate as a result of excessive soaking; "the tissue macerated in the water"
- cause to grow thin or weak; "The treatment emaciated him"
- separate into constituents by soaking
- soften, usually by steeping in liquid, and cause to disintegrate as a result; "macerate peaches"; "the gizzards macerates the food in the digestive system"
Majorate
- - The office or rank of a major.