calcify

From French calcifier, or from English calcium +‎ -ify.

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkælsɪfaɪ/

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calcify (third-person singular simple present calcifies, present participle calcifying, simple past and past participle calcified)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To make or become hard and stony by impregnating with calcium salts.

   calcify tissue

   calcify rapidly

   calcify with age

   Over time, the arteries began to calcify.

2. (figuratively, by extension) To make or become rigid or inflexible; to ossify.

• calculus