calcify
verb (used with or without object)
to make or become calcareous or bony; harden by the deposit of calcium salts.
had calcified
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past perfectof calcify.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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The team say the scans also shed light on the lives of the creatures: the cobra appears to have had calcified kidneys, suggesting gout, which has been found in modern snakes kept in poor conditions.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 20, 2020
“There’s a pipeline that had calcified of every one of these films, so I think we had the luck of being given a hammer to break the pipeline,” said Robert Persichetti Jr., another “Spider-Verse” co-director.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 13, 2018
Shame had turned to anger, and anger had calcified into resolve by USC’s second game, on Saturday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2016
By the time Bill Hicks started doing stand-up comedy, the form itself had calcified into the comfortable, brick-wall-and-two-drink-minimum that all of America saw on basic cable all through the ’80s.
From Slate ● Feb. 26, 2014
By the last years before Gianni’s death, in 2003, Fiat’s culture had calcified.
From New York Times ● Dec. 31, 2011
