Dictionary Definition
calcify
Verb
1 become impregnated with calcium salts [ant:
decalcify]
2 become inflexible and unchanging; "Old folks
can calcify"
3 turn into lime; become calcified; "The rock
calcified over the centuries"
4 convert into lime; "the salts calcified the
rock" [also: calcified]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Verb
- to make something hard and stony by impregnating with calcium salts
- to become hard and stony by impregnation with calcium salts
Translations
transitive
- Finnish: kalkita
- Italian: calcificare
intransitive
- Finnish: kalkkeutua, kalkkiutua
- Italian: calcificarsi