Dictionary Entry
calcify
calcify is a 7-letter English word with 6 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To make stony or calcareous by the deposit or secretion of salts of lime. Face value is 17 in Scrabble and 19 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 17 · Words With Friends 19 · 6 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To make stony or calcareous by the deposit or secretion of salts of lime.
- 2intransitive verb
To become changed into a stony or calcareous condition, in which lime is a principal ingredient, as in the formation of teeth.
- 3verb
convert into lime
"the salts calcified the rock"
- 4verb
turn into lime; become calcified
"The rock calcified over the centuries"
- 5verb
become impregnated with calcium salts
- 6verb
become inflexible and unchanging
"Old folks can calcify"
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