calcify

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Etymology

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From French calcifier.

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

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