calcify Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb become impregnated with calcium salts
  2. verb become inflexible and unchanging
    • Old folks can calcify
  3. verb turn into lime; become calcified
    • The rock calcified over the centuries
  4. verb convert into lime
    • the salts calcified the rock

WordNet

Cal"ci*fy transitive verb
Etymology
L. calx, calcis, lime + -fy.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Calcified ; present participle & verbal noun Calcifying
Definitions
  1. To make stony or calcareous by the deposit or secretion of salts of lime.
Cal"ci*fy intransitive verb
Definitions
  1. To become changed into a stony or calcareous condition, in lime is a principal ingredient, as in the formation of teeth.

Webster 1913