Antonyms for calcified
| Grammar : Adj, verb |
| Spell : kal-suh-fahy |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈkæl səˌfaɪ |
- abstract
- be intolerant
- bending
- calm
- comfort
- continue
- dilute
- discourage
- dishearten
- disjoin
- dissolve
- dissuade
- divide
- enlarge
- flex
- flexible
- hurt
- ideal
- immaterial
- indefinite
- indulge
- intangible
- let go
- liquefy
- loose
- loosen
- melt
- open
- please
- pliable
- separate
- slack
- soft
- soften
- soothe
- spoil
- thin
- unfix
- unsettle
- upset
- weaken
Definition of calcified
Origin :- 1785 (implied in calcified), from French calcifier, from stem of Latin calcem "lime" (see chalk (n.)) + -fy. Related: Calcifying; calcification.
- As in petrified : adj hardened
- As in concrete : adj hardened
- As in petrify : verb make hard
- As in indurate : verb harden
- As in harden : verb make or become solid
- In Propristis schweinfurthi the tooth-sockets are not yet calcified.
- Extract from : « A Guide to the Study of Fishes, Volume 1 (of 2) » by David Starr Jordan
- Now and then these grains are found to be in a calcified condition.
- Extract from : « Special Report on Diseases of Cattle » by U.S. Department of Agriculture
- Other specimens show no trace of these calcified projections.
- Extract from : « A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia (Volume 1 of 2) » by Charles Darwin
- Calcified arteries are readily identified in skiagrams (Fig. 65).
- Extract from : « Manual of Surgery » by Alexis Thomson and Alexander Miles
- A man of forty years may therefore have the calcified, pipe stem arteries of a man of eighty.
- Extract from : « Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: » by Louis Marshall Warfield
- Many puny individuals with stiff, calcified arteries go about with more ease than a robust man with thickened arteries only.
- Extract from : « Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: » by Louis Marshall Warfield
- The sacral diapophyses are expanded and have a border of calcified cartilage laterally.
- Extract from : « Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus Smilisca » by William E. Duellman
- The scapula is flat and expanded dorsally; the suprascapula is broad, flat, and calcified in large adults.
- Extract from : « Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus Smilisca » by William E. Duellman
- Cal′cic, containing calcium; Cal′cific, calcifying or calcified.
- Extract from : « Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) » by Various
- Their epidermis has secreted a thin covering of chitine, in the tubular worms a leather-like or calcified tube.
- Extract from : « The Wonders of Life » by Ernst Haeckel
Synonyms for calcified
- acclimate
- acclimatize
- amalgamate
- anneal
- bake
- brace
- buttress
- cake
- caked
- calcified
- calcify
- callous
- caseharden
- cement
- cemented
- clarify
- close
- clot
- coagulate
- compact
- compressed
- concrete
- congeal
- congealed
- conglomerated
- consolidate
- consolidated
- contract
- crystallize
- curdle
- densify
- dried
- dry
- firm
- fix
- fortify
- fossilize
- fossilized
- freeze
- frozen
- gird
- harden
- indurate
- jell
- lapidify
- mineralize
- monolithic
- nerve
- ossified
- ossify
- petrified
- petrify
- poured
- precast
- precipitate
- press
- reinforce
- season
- set
- set in stone
- settle
- solid
- solidified
- solidify
- starch
- steel
- steeled
- stiffen
- strengthen
- strong
- temper
- thicken
- toughen
- turn to stone
- unyielding
- vitrify
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