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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.
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.
Calcify by 473927 July 16, 2013
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calcification 

A change or hardening of tissue through the impregnation of calcium. The process by which specific corals grow.
Calcification of the coral reef took place over may years. Calcification in my breast tissue showed up on my mammogram.
calcification by popcat November 18, 2013

Callifying

A conjunction of Calling and Verifying. The act occurs when a person calls to verify information.
I was just callifying the budget of the organization.
Callifying by ahuey October 18, 2008

Calcified 

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.
Soyjak: “Hey did you see Biden’s address reassuring everyone that banks are safe?”
Chad: “You’re calcified.”
Calcified by iF_Warrcoww March 15, 2023
An all powerful fire demon
the fire Calcifer in howls moving castle :}
Calcifer by Mina Lucero June 1, 2010

Calcificate 

- calcificate, calcify, calcification, calcium.

- to surround a foreign object, that can potentially harm the human body, with calcium.

- to resemble the process of calcification.

- examples of items the body might calcificate: tumors, still born babies, parasitic twins, items lost during surgery (i.e. gauze, scalpel).
When the human body considers an item within it as foreign, it either rejects it, absorbs it, or calcificates it.

Things in life were hard and what she’d learned as a child was to cocoon, calcificate jagged, polluting experiences. Compartmentalizing them in a box, in a bag, in a box, in a bag, in another box, like her mother stored holiday decorations. She hid the ugliness she came across in a storage shed in the dark recesses of her mind. Engulfed by party supplies, stuffed animals, her sister’s prom dress and winter clothes the darkness hibernated.
Calcificate by Agentmg17 February 27, 2011

Calcifass 

Abbreviation for a seldom used, vintage, expression. "Boil on a Calcifer's ass", used to imply an object and/or person is hideously ugly.
"Hey man, how did your date go last night?"

"Horrible. We got back to my place last night where we took off our clothes...her body is like a Calcifass. You know, boil on calcifer's ass!"

"What a shame, sorry to hear that."
Calcifass by Professor Jsau - Harvard February 28, 2014
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Are yinz havin' city chicken for dinner?
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Slayyyter just announced another album last night”
“No way, is that cake?”
“Yeah whoops this isn’t real”
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