calcify

About 0.10 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To make or become hard and stony by impregnating with calcium salts.

   calcify tissue

2. verb To make or become rigid or inflexible; to ossify.

Similar words

cretify indurate solidify firm encrust inlapidate solidate cement callus karstify

Often followed by

and in or the into at with as to

Word family

calcification calcifications calcified calcifies calcifying