calcify

Verbs

  • (v) become impregnated with calcium salts
  • (v) become inflexible and unchanging
    • Old folks can calcify
  • (v) turn into lime; become calcified
    • The rock calcified over the centuries
  • (v) convert into lime
    • the salts calcified the rock

Antonyms

decalcify

Words of close approximity

calcic
calcine calcite calcium