All callusing synonyms
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C c verb callusing
- accustom — If you accustom yourself or another person to something, you make yourself or them become used to it.
- conform — If something conforms to something such as a law or someone's wishes, it is of the required type or quality.
- strengthen — to make stronger; give strength to.
- stupefy — to put into a state of little or no sensibility; benumb the faculties of; put into a stupor.
- discipline — training to act in accordance with rules; drill: military discipline.
- inure — to accustom to hardship, difficulty, pain, etc.; toughen or harden; habituate (usually followed by to): inured to cold.
- develop — When something develops, it grows or changes over a period of time and usually becomes more advanced, complete, or severe.
- callous — A callous person or action is very cruel and shows no concern for other people or their feelings.
- acclimatize — When you acclimatize or are acclimatized to a new situation, place, or climate, you become used to it.
- adapt — If you adapt to a new situation or adapt yourself to it, you change your ideas or behaviour in order to deal with it successfully.
- habituate — to accustom (a person, the mind, etc.), as to a particular situation: Wealth habituated him to luxury.
- stun — to deprive of consciousness or strength by or as if by a blow, fall, etc.: The blow to his jaw stunned him for a moment.
- steel — any of various modified forms of iron, artificially produced, having a carbon content less than that of pig iron and more than that of wrought iron, and having qualities of hardness, elasticity, and strength varying according to composition and heat treatment: generally categorized as having a high, medium, or low-carbon content.
- season — one of the four periods of the year (spring, summer, autumn, and winter), beginning astronomically at an equinox or solstice, but geographically at different dates in different climates.
- train — Railroads. a self-propelled, connected group of rolling stock.
- numb — deprived of physical sensation or the ability to move: fingers numb with cold.
- deaden — If something deadens a feeling or a sound, it makes it less strong or loud.
- teach — to impart knowledge of or skill in; give instruction in: She teaches mathematics. Synonyms: coach.
- dull — not sharp; blunt: a dull knife.
- stiffen — to make stiff.
- indurate — to make hard; harden, as rock, tissue, etc.: Cold indurates the soil.
- blunt — If you are blunt, you say exactly what you think without trying to be polite.
- acclimate — When you acclimate or are acclimated to a new situation, place, or climate, you become used to it.
- paralyze — to affect with paralysis.
- adjust — When you adjust to a new situation, you get used to it by changing your behaviour or your ideas.
- brutalize — If an unpleasant experience brutalizes someone, it makes them cruel or violent.
- roughen — make rough
- callus — A callus is an unwanted area of thick skin, usually on the palms of your hands or the soles of your feet, which has been caused by something rubbing against it.
- coarsen — If something coarsens or is coarsened, it becomes thicker or rougher in texture.
- case-harden — to form a hard surface layer of high carbon content on (a steel component) by heating in a carburizing environment with subsequent quenching or heat treatment
- climatize — to acclimate to a new environment.