Processes
Synonyms for calcify
The synonym for calcify recorded in this bank is fossilize, in the sense "to become rigid and fixed, unable to change". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for calcify
- fossilizeverb, in the sense "to become rigid and fixed, unable to change"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and calcify carries one sense so far.
to become rigid and fixed, unable to change
After decades in the same job, his opinions began to calcify into rigid certainties.
The true synonym
fossilize
Same sentence, swapped: After decades in the same job, his opinions began to fossilize into rigid certainties.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for calcify in the sentence quoted.
- dissolve
- evolve
- soften
Where calcify turns up in the game
calcify is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.
Play calcify
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so calcify reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The ring widens as it goes, from processes at Ridgeline outward to the whole bank.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. calcify carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.