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CALLOUSED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does calloused mean?
• CALLOUSED (adjective)
The adjective CALLOUSED has 1 sense:
1. having calluses; having skin made tough and thick through wear
Familiarity information: CALLOUSED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having calluses; having skin made tough and thick through wear
Synonyms:
Context example:
with a workman's callous hands
Similar:
Context examples
She put her work-calloused hand upon his hot forehead and felt his pulse.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
They are a company of celibates, grinding harshly against one another and growing daily more calloused from the grinding.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
She saw before her only a boy, who was shaking her hand with a hand so calloused that it felt like a nutmeg-grater and rasped her skin, and who was saying jerkily:-
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
It was remarkably calloused.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
He held up his hand, rubbing the ball of the thumb over the calloused palm and gazing at the dirt that was ingrained in the flesh itself and which no brush could scrub away.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
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