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Calcify

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To make or become stony or chalky by deposition of calcium salts.

v. To make or become inflexible and unchanging.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. to make something hard and stony by impregnating with calcium salts

v. to become hard and stony by impregnation with calcium salts

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. To make stony or calcareous by the deposit or secretion of salts of lime.

verb-intransitive. To become changed into a stony or calcareous condition, in which lime is a principal ingredient, as in the formation of teeth.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To make calcic; harden by secreting or depositing a salt of lime.

To turn into bone or bony tissue; become hard like bone, as cartilage or membrane, by the deposition or secretion of a salt of lime.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. become impregnated with calcium salts

v. convert into lime

v. turn into lime; become calcified

v. become inflexible and unchanging

Word Usage

"My plan is to look for the signs that I'm starting to calcify."

Verb Form

calcified calcifies calcifying

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

harden indurate change modify alter

Cross Reference

calcific segment

Variant

calcified

Form

calcified calcifying calcifier calcification

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

petrify