verbcalcifies, calcified, calcifying
- 1
[I, T] technical
to become hard, or make something hard, because calcium salts have been deposited in it
(कैल्शियम जमने से) कठोर होना या करना, कैल्सीकृत होना
- The cartilage slowly calcifies and turns into bone.
- calcified arteries
Synonyms harden ossify petrify
Opposite soften
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[I] formal, disapproving
(of ideas, systems or organizations) to become fixed and unable to change
(विचारों या व्यवस्था का) जड़ हो जाना, बदलाव के प्रति कठोर हो जाना
- Over the years the party's thinking had calcified.
Synonyms ossify stagnate fossilize
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