calcify

English

Etymology

From French calcifier.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkælsɪfaɪ/

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Verb

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.

Derived terms

• anticalcifying
• biocalcify
• calcifiable
• calcific
• calcification
• calcifier
• decalcification
• decalcify
• noncalcifying
• procalcifying
• recalcification
• recalcify

 

Related terms

• calculus

Translations

transitive

• Bulgarian: калцирам (kalciram), втвърдявам (bg) (vtvǎrdjavam)
• Catalan: calcificar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鈣化／钙化 (zh) (gàihuà)

• Finnish: kalkita (fi)
• French: calcifier (fr)
• Galician: calcificar (gl)
• Italian: calcificare (it)
• Portuguese: calcificar (pt)
• Russian: превраща́ть в и́звесть (prevraščátʹ v ízvestʹ)
• Spanish: calcificar (es)
• Swedish: förkalka

intransitive

• Bulgarian: калцирам се (kalciram se), втвърдявам се (vtvǎrdjavam se)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鈣化／钙化 (zh) (gàihuà)

• Finnish: kalkkeutua (fi), kalkkiutua
• French: se calcifier (fr)
• Galician: calcificarse
• Italian: calcificarsi
• Russian: превраща́ться в и́звесть (prevraščátʹsja v ízvestʹ), отвердевать (ru) (otverdevatʹ)
• Swedish: förkalkas

See also

• ossify
• petrify
• sclerose