calcify

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkælsɪfaɪ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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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.

   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.

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)
• Polish: zwapniać impf, zwapnić pf
• Portuguese: calcificar (pt)
• Russian: превраща́ть в и́звесть (prevraščátʹ v ízvestʹ)
• Spanish: calcificar (es)
• Swedish: förkalka
• Tagalog: kalsipikahan

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
• Polish: wapnieć impf, zwapnieć pf
• Russian: превраща́ться в и́звесть (prevraščátʹsja v ízvestʹ), отвердевать (ru) (otverdevatʹ)
• Swedish: förkalkas
• Turkish: kireçleşmek (tr), kireçlenmek (tr)

See also

• ossify
• petrify
• sclerose