calcify

From French calcifier.

• (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.

   Over time, the arteries began to calcify.

   calcify tissue

   calcify rapidly

   calcify with age

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

• calculus