Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive & intransitive verb To make or become stony or chalky by deposition of calcium salts.
- transitive & intransitive verb To make or become inflexible and unchanging.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To make calcic; harden by secreting or depositing a salt of lime.
- To turn into bone or bony tissue; become hard like bone, as cartilage or membrane, by the deposition or secretion of a salt of lime.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To become changed into a stony or calcareous condition, in which lime is a principal ingredient, as in the formation of teeth.
- transitive verb To make stony or calcareous by the deposit or secretion of salts of lime.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive to make something hard and stony by
impregnating withcalcium salts - verb intransitive to become hard and stony by
impregnation with calcium salts
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb become impregnated with calcium salts
- verb convert into lime
- verb turn into lime; become calcified
- verb become inflexible and unchanging
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Examples
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If some writers didn't do it, fiction as a form would simply calcify.
Narrative Strategies 2009
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Terry (Josh Lucas), a forlorn single father and “stay-at-home IT guy,” recuperates from a heart transplant while raising Angie (Beatrice Miller), whose rare genetic disorder causes the tendons and ligaments in her body to calcify into bone ...
Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat 2009
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My plan is to look for the signs that I'm starting to calcify.
The Terrifying Truth About New Technology Daniel H. Wilson 2011
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When we become adherents of our own certitude, our faith can calcify and stagnate.
Paul Brandeis Raushenbush: Christian Civility: The Test Of Intra-Faith Relations Paul Brandeis Raushenbush 2011
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However, religious commitment can be less flexible than nationalist commitment, because when the divine is invoked and the stakes are as high as eternal bliss or eternal damnation, orthodox and outdated interpretations calcify.
Omar Baddar: God's Progressive Prophets Omar Baddar 2011
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The dramatist's goal was to preempt any tendency the festival might have to calcify into a symposium.
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My plan is to look for the signs that I'm starting to calcify.
The Terrifying Truth About New Technology Daniel H. Wilson 2011
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In a recent experiment in the Mediterranean, reported in Nature Climate Change, corals and mollusks were transplanted to lower pH sites, where they proved "able to calcify and grow at even faster than normal rates when exposed to the high carbon-dioxide levels projected for the next 300 years."
Taking Fears of Acid Oceans With a Grain of Salt Matt Ridley 2012
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When we become adherents of our own certitude, our faith can calcify and stagnate.
Paul Brandeis Raushenbush: Christian Civility: The Test Of Intra-Faith Relations Paul Brandeis Raushenbush 2011
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The unemployment rates of the young and unskilled can be astronomical, even in rich nations like Germany and France, as older unionized workers have worked to calcify labor markets to their own advantage.
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