calcify

英 ['kælsɪfaɪ] 美 ['kælsɪfaɪ]

• v. 钙化；(使)成石灰质

英英释义

Verb:

1. become impregnated with calcium salts

2. become inflexible and unchanging;

   "Old folks can calcify"
   

3. turn into lime; become calcified;

   "The rock calcified over the centuries"
   

4. convert into lime;

   "the salts calcified the rock"
   

例句

用作动词 (v.)

1. An aortic valve need not be bicuspid to calcify.
   主动脉瓣并非是两个瓣叶的才钙化。
2. Rickets is a disease of children characterized by a failure of the growing bones to calcify normally.
   佝偻病是一种儿童疾病，它的特征是生长中的骨骼不能正常钙化。

经典引文

• The humanity in her had been calcified by the pursuit of money.

  出自： fig.

近反义词

【近义词】

• harden (使)变硬
• set 放置
• solidify 变固体
• fossilize 使成化石
• petrify 使石化

【反义词】

• decalcify 除去石灰质