"calcify" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

IPA: /ˈkælsɪfaɪ/ [US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-calcify.wav Forms: calcifies [present, singular, third-person], calcifying [participle, present], calcified [participle, past], calcified [past]
Etymology: From French calcifier. Etymology templates: {{uder|en|fr|calcifier}} French calcifier, {{root|en|ine-pro|*dʰeh₁-}} Head templates: {{en-verb}} calcify (third-person singular simple present calcifies, present participle calcifying, simple past and past participle calcified)
  1. (transitive, intransitive) To make or become hard and stony by impregnating with calcium salts. Tags: intransitive, transitive Translations (intransitive): калцирам се (kalciram se) (Bulgarian), втвърдявам се (vtvǎrdjavam se) (Bulgarian), 鈣化 /钙化 (gàihuà) (Chinese Mandarin), kalkkeutua (Finnish), kalkkiutua (Finnish), se calcifier (French), calcificarse (Galician), calcificarsi (Italian), превраща́ться в и́звесть (prevraščátʹsja v ízvestʹ) (Russian), отвердевать (otverdevatʹ) (Russian), förkalkas (Swedish) Translations (transitive): калцирам (kalciram) (Bulgarian), втвърдявам (vtvǎrdjavam) (Bulgarian), calcificar (Catalan), 鈣化 /钙化 (gàihuà) (Chinese Mandarin), kalkita (Finnish), calcifier (French), calcificar (Galician), calcificare (Italian), calcificar (Portuguese), превраща́ть в и́звесть (prevraščátʹ v ízvestʹ) (Russian), calcificar (Spanish), förkalka (Swedish)
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  2. (figuratively, by extension) To make or become rigid or inflexible; to ossify. Tags: broadly, figuratively
    Sense id: en-calcify-en-verb-XZ9dV5~i
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: calculus, ossify, petrify, sclerose

Inflected forms

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      "word": "отвердевать"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "intransitive",
      "word": "förkalkas"
    }
  ],
  "word": "calcify"
}

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