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    [Verb]  | "cal*ci*fy" | \ ˈkal-sə-ˌfī \


    1: to make calcareous by deposit of calcium salts

    2: to make inflexible or unchangeable

    3: to become calcareous


    Origin: 1836 ;

    [Verb]  | "calcifies" 


     [ "Calcified" ]

    1: The condition one develops from drinking unfiltered tap water. It is used to imply that someone blindly trusts governments and corporations, and is an idiot.

      * e.g.,  ... Soyjak: “Hey did you see Biden’s address reassuring everyone that banks are safe?” 

     [ "Calcify" ]

    1: To take something inherently temporary and tenuous and preserve it by making a separate, permanent rendering of it. The rendering may be either concrete or abstract.

      * e.g.,  ... I knew her habit of smoking would kill her skin soon, so I got out my camera and calcified her face while I could. We all would have forgotten that our town won the Little League World Series in 1999 if the newspaper didn't calcify it. I know Mark will never like me back, but at least I was able to calcify my feelings for him into a poem. 

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