The Clue
Made callous (8 letter answer)
The Answer
HARDENED
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Notes
The answer HARDENED is so rare that it appears less than once every 2500 puzzles.
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Definition
HARDEN as a verb:
1. (harden, indurate) = become hard or harder; "The wax hardened"
2. (harden, indurate) = make hard or harder; "The cold hardened the butter"
3. (temper, harden) = harden by reheating and cooling in oil; "temper steel"
4. (season, harden) = make fit; "This trip will season even the hardiest traveller"
5. (inure, harden, indurate) = cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate; "He was inured to the cold"
HARDENED as an adjective:
1. (case-hardened, hardened, hard-boiled) = used of persons; emotionally hardened; "faced a case-hardened judge"
2. (tempered, treated, hardened, toughened) = made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment; "a sword of tempered steel"; "tempered glass"
3. protected against attack (especially by nuclear weapons); "hardened missile silos"
4. (enured, inured, hardened) = made tough by habitual exposure; "hardened fishermen"; "a peasant, dark, lean-faced, wind-inured"- Robert Lynd; "our successors...may be graver, more inured and equable men"- V.S.Pritchett
5. (hardened, set) = converted to solid form (as concrete)