callousing

After callousing their fingers on the East Coast club scene, The War On Drugs signed their first record deal in 2007, releasing the EP Barrel of Batteries.

Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin: Dog Ears Music: Volume Fifty-Nine 2009

Dr. Shelton had demonstrated that the latter was a good dressing for wounds and I assumed that in grafting, it would promote callousing.

Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Thirty-Seventh Annual Report Wooster, Ohio, September 3, 4, 5, 1946

Professor Lake: You don't know how successful the callousing has been?

Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Second Annual Meeting Ithaca, New York, December 14 and 15, 1911

I believe it has a hardening, degrading, callousing effect, which must leave an indelible impress upon his future life.

The Delinquent 1912

More and more often, during the last few weeks, he had beheld the signs of some callousing and hardening process going on within her.

Phantom Wires A Novel Arthur Stringer 1912

As much as his rhetoric, the president's attire spoke of a callousing escalation.

Progressive Democrats of America Blog Bryan Buchan 2010

Insecurities and fears, layering and callousing the soul, making it harder, uglier. kerrianne

Jurgen Nation . Com 2009