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