CALCIFY meaning: Turn into bone or bony tissue

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Definitions from Wiktionary (calcify)

▸ verb: (transitive, intransitive) To make or become hard and stony by impregnating with calcium salts.
▸ verb: (figuratively, by extension) To make or become rigid or inflexible; to ossify.

Similar:

cretify, indurate, solidify, firm, encrust, inlapidate, solidate, cement, callus, karstify, more...

Opposite:

decalcify, soften, liquefy

Types:

petrify, ossify, concretize, cement, more...

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