Usually means: Turning tissues into calcium deposits.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. calcifying: Merriam-Webster
  2. calcifying: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. calcifying: Collins English Dictionary
  4. calcifying: Vocabulary.com
  5. calcifying: Wordnik
  6. calcifying: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. calcifying: Wiktionary
  8. Calcifying, calcifying: Dictionary.com
  9. Calcifying: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Calcifying: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. calcifying: FreeDictionary.org
  12. calcifying: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. calcifying: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. calcifying: Medical dictionary

(Note: See calcify as well.)

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.
▸ Also see calcify

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