🖐️ Thick hard skin 💔 Emotionally tough 🖐️ To harden

to callused

4.5

To develop hard skin on the body or become less sensitive to other people's pain

verb
/ˈkæl.əst/

: desarrollar callos

After months of working without gloves, his hands became callused from the tools.

Examples

Years of harsh weather and outdoor labor left her skin callused and tough.
As he witnessed more suffering in his job, he started to feel callused to the pain of others.
And over a period of time, boy, it calluses out of your mind.

Synonyms

to callus

vsto callused

5.1

To make skin hard and thick by repeated rubbing or pressure

also includes becoming emotionally hardened rather than only physical change

Antonyms

to soften

55 1.3

Become soft or make something soft

How Hardened

to numb

62 4.2

to harden

57 3.9

to callused

4.5

to toughen

15 3.9

to desensitize

10 6.3

Surface Forms

callused infinitive

callused past

callused past participle

callusing present participle

calluses third person singular

Morphology

callused = callus (semi-transparent) = callus + ed

As a verbal past/past-participle form, the morphology is regular, but the sense mixes literal and figurative meanings, so full transparency is partial.

Etymology

Callused as a verb comes from the Latin callus 'hard skin', meaning to grow hard skin from friction, and by extension it can mean to become emotionally hardened after repeated hard experiences.