Callous vs. Petrify — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Callous and Petrify
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Callous
Showing or having an insensitive and cruel disregard for others
His callous comments about the murder made me shiver
Petrify
To convert (wood or other organic matter) into a stony replica by petrifaction.
Callous
Variant spelling of callus
Petrify
To cause to lose vitality or become impervious to change; deaden
A routine that petrified her thinking.
Callous
Having calluses; toughened
Callous skin on the elbow.
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Petrify
To stun or paralyze with terror; daze.
Callous
Emotionally hardened; unfeeling
A callous indifference to the suffering of others.
Petrify
To harden organic matter by permeating with water and depositing dissolved minerals.
Callous
To make or become callous.
Petrify
To produce rigidity akin to stone.
Callous
(figurative) Emotionally hardened; unfeeling and indifferent to the suffering/feelings of others.
She was so callous that she could criticise a cancer patient for wearing a wig.
Petrify
To immobilize with fright.
Callous
(literal) Having calluses, or relating to calluses.
Petrify
(intransitive) To become stone, or of a stony hardness, as organic matter by calcareous deposits.
Callous
Alternative form of callus
Petrify
To become stony, callous, or obdurate.
Callous
Alternative form of callus
Petrify
To make callous or obdurate; to stupefy; to paralyze; to transform; as by petrification.
Callous
Hardened; indurated.
Petrify
To convert, as any animal or vegetable matter, into stone or stony substance.
A river that petrifies any sort of wood or leaves.
Callous
Hardened in mind; insensible; unfeeling; unsusceptible.
It is an immense blessing to be perfectly callous to ridicule.
A callousness and numbness of soul.
Petrify
To make callous or obdurate; to stupefy; to paralyze; to transform; as by petrifaction; as, to petrify the heart. Young.
And petrify a genius to a dunce.
The poor, petrified journeyman, quite unconscious of what he was doing.
A hideous fatalism, which ought, logically, to petrify your volition.
Callous
Make insensitive or callous; deaden feelings or morals
Petrify
To become stone, or of a stony hardness, as organic matter by calcareous deposits.
Callous
Emotionally hardened;
A callous indifference to suffering
Cold-blooded and indurate to public opinion
Petrify
Fig.: To become stony, callous, or obdurate.
Like Niobe we marble grow,And petrify with grief.
Petrify
Cause to become stone-like or stiff or dazed and stunned;
The horror petrified his feelings
Fear petrified her thinking
Petrify
Change into stone;
The wood petrified with time
Petrify
Make rigid and set into a conventional pattern;
Rigidify the training schedule
Ossified teaching methods
Slogans petrify our thinking
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