Found 3 items, similar to calcify.
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: calcify mengapur
English → English (WordNet) Definition: calcify calcify v 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]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Calcify Calcify \Cal"ci*fy\ (k[a^]l"s[i^]*f[imac]), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Calcified (-f[imac]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Calcifying.] [L. calx, calcis, lime + -fy.] To make stony or calcareous by the deposit or secretion of salts of lime. [1913 Webster] Calcify \Cal"ci*fy\, v. i. To become changed into a stony or calcareous condition, in which lime is a principal ingredient, as in the formation of teeth. [1913 Webster]