The Collaborative International Dictionary
Calcifying
Calcify \Cal"ci*fy\ (k[a^]l"s[i^]*f[imac]), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Calcified (-f[imac]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Calcifying.] [L. calx, calcis, lime + -fy.] To make stony or calcareous by the deposit or secretion of salts of lime.
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calcifying
vb. (present participle of calcify English)
Usage examples of "calcifying".
Volcanic in nature, they had been augmented in size by the growth of a calcifying organism like coral, but less acid sensitive.
I was still parked down the road from Bertram Comfort's gray stone house, where I'd been for over an hour, warming my calcifying marrow with judicious transfusions of hot coffee from a Thermos and waiting for the lights to go out downstairs.
This town, the county seat, had been calcifying steadily for twenty years.