Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To remove calcium or calcium compounds from (bones or teeth, for example).
- intransitive verb To lose calcium or calcium compounds.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To deprive of lime, as bones or teeth of their calcareous matter.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To deprive of calcareous matter; thus, to
decalcify bones is to remove the stony part, and leave only the gelatin.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
deprive ofcalcareous matter.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb remove calcium or lime from
- verb lose calcium or calcium compounds
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Examples
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Slowly attacking the skin and mucous tissue, it can kill nerves, disable muscles, decalcify bones, and disfigure faces.
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Slowly attacking the skin and mucous tissue, it can kill nerves, disable muscles, decalcify bones, and disfigure faces.
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Slowly attacking the skin and mucous tissue, it can kill nerves, disable muscles, decalcify bones, and disfigure faces.
History 2009
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Slowly attacking the skin and mucous tissue, it can kill nerves, disable muscles, decalcify bones, and disfigure faces.
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Slowly attacking the skin and mucous tissue, it can kill nerves, disable muscles, decalcify bones, and disfigure faces.
Religion 2009
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Slowly attacking the skin and mucous tissue, it can kill nerves, disable muscles, decalcify bones, and disfigure faces.
Saints 2009
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On the basis of animal studies, Dr. Schurgers believes that a 150-microgram dose of MK-7 is the minimum amount needed to build bone and decalcify arteries.
Forever Young M.D. Nicholas Perricone 2010
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Twitch responded, then turned on Casey, giving him a look that could decalcify the spines of lesser men.
Firefly Ship Works Ltd. » Blog Archive » Stray Dogs, Chapter One: An Unexpected Gift 2009
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No enough time has passed to decalcify the education leviathon and gutting too soon will no serve anyone, least of all the students in most need of help.
Congress Gets Busy with NCLB Matt Johnston 2007
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Now though scientists in various countries have developed differing technologies that produce similar results to deaden sensitivity and decalcify the teeth, problems that have increasing significance as populations age.
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