MEANING
To become hardened through calcium-salt deposition, or cause that process.
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Words that belong together
- calcify tissue
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The damaged tissue began to calcify.
Deposits calcified around the joint.
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Word forms
- Base
- calcify
- Past tense
- calcified
- Past participle
- calcified
- Present participle
- calcifying
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- calcify
- Present continuous
- am/is/are calcifying
- Present perfect
- have/has calcified
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been calcifying
- Past
- calcified
- Past continuous
- was/were calcifying
- Past perfect
- had calcified
- Past perfect continuous
- had been calcifying
- Future
- will calcify
- Future continuous
- will be calcifying
- Future perfect
- will have calcified
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been calcifying
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Usage notes
Primary category: horror. Forms: calcify; calcifies; calcified; calcified; calcifying Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: calcifies.
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