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calcify
verb as in harden
Strong matches
Weak match
verb as in indurate
Strong matches
- acclimate
- acclimatize
- amalgamate
- anneal
- bake
- brace
- buttress
- cake
- callous
- cement
- close
- clot
- coagulate
- compact
- concrete
- congeal
- consolidate
- contract
- crystallize
- curdle
- dry
- firm
- fix
- fortify
- fossilize
- freeze
- gird
- jell
- nerve
- ossify
- petrify
- precipitate
- press
- reinforce
- season
- set
- settle
- solidify
- starch
- steel
- stiffen
- strengthen
- temper
- thicken
- toughen
- vitrify
Weak matches
verb as in petrify
Weak match
Example Sentences
Those are things that we could try that people don’t necessarily have those calcified opinions around yet.
Victor then flips back to an earlier chapter, before their graduation, to a time when Agnes seems less calcified in her idiosyncrasies.
You may unfortunately remember the era through the parts that quickly calcified into cliché: $14 cocktails in Mason jars, the monoculture of pork belly, a nationwide proliferation of flaccid fried green tomatoes.
It’s a socioeconomic and psychological cocktail that, experts explained, has calcified as a sort of baked-in resentment against older generations — but one that, when you consider things from their perspective, might be understandable.
The last few presidential elections, Vavreck said, have demonstrated that the electorate is “calcified,” with “rough parity” between the numbers of Democrats and Republicans.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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