🦶 Thick skin 🦴 Healing bone tissue 🦶 To harden skin 🌸 Plant thickening

to callus

5.1

To make skin hard and thick by repeated rubbing or pressure

verb
/ˈkæləs/

: formarse callos

She noticed that the area on her palm started to callus after weeks of gardening.

Examples

If you repeatedly apply pressure, the skin will callus to protect itself.
So they've had a good chance to dry and callus on the cut ends.
After walking barefoot on the rough surface, my foot began to callus from the friction.

How Hardened

to keratinize

Specialized

9.4

to harden

27 2.6

to callus

5.1

to toughen

15 3.9

Surface Forms

callus infinitive

callused past

callused past participle

callusing present participle

calluses third person singular

Etymology

Callus (verb) comes from the same Latin callus 'hard skin' and simply means 'to become hard', so when skin or tissue calluses it grows thick and tough after repeated use.