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Decalcify

To deprive of calcareous matter; thus, to decalcify bones is to remove the stony part, and leave only the gelatin.

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Change 76% connected

To alter; to make different; to cause to pass from one state to another; as, to change the position, character, or appearance of a thing; to change t…

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Pull 76% connected

To draw, or attempt to draw, toward one; to draw forcibly.

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Remove 76% connected

To move away from the position occupied; to cause to change place; to displace; as, to remove a building.

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Take 76% connected

Taken.

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Withdraw 76% connected

To take back or away, as what has been bestowed or enjoyed; to draw back; to cause to move away or retire; as, to withdraw aid, favor, capital, or th…

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Calcify 94% connected

To make stony or calcareous by the deposit or secretion of salts of lime.

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Calcify 94% connected

To make stony or calcareous by the deposit or secretion of salts of lime.

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Abandon verb · 78% connection

leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch; "The mother deserted her children"

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Autotype noun · 78% connection

A photographic picture produced in sensitized pigmented gelatin by exposure to light under a negative; and subsequent washing out of t…

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Bony adjective · 78% connection

Consisting of bone, or of bones; full of bones; pertaining to bones.

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Calcification noun · 78% connection

The process of change into a stony or calcareous substance by the deposition of lime salt; -- normally, as in the formation of bone an…

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Calcified adjective · 78% connection

Consisting of, or containing, calcareous matter or lime salts; calcareous.

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Calcine verb · 78% connection

To reduce to a powder, or to a friable state, by the action of heat; to expel volatile matter from by means of heat, as carbonic acid…

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Calcite noun · 78% connection

Calcium carbonate, or carbonate of lime. It is rhombohedral in its crystallization, and thus distinguished from aragonite. It includes…

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Cartilaginous adjective · 78% connection

Having the skeleton in the state of cartilage, the bones containing little or no calcareous matter; said of certain fishes, as the stu…

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Chondrin noun · 78% connection

A colorless, amorphous, nitrogenous substance, tasteless and odorless, formed from cartilaginous tissue by long-continued action of bo…

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Desert verb · 78% connection

To leave (especially something which one should stay by and support); to leave in the lurch; to abandon; to forsake; -- implying blame…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: deprive, calcareous, matter, thus, bones.
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Desolate verb · 78% connection

leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch; "The mother deserted her children"

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Devitrification noun · 78% connection

The act or process of devitrifying, or the state of being devitrified. Specifically, the conversion of molten glassy matter into a sto…

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Dismission noun · 78% connection

The act dismissing or sending away; permission to leave; leave to depart; dismissal; as, the dismission of the grand jury.

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Exosstate verb · 78% connection

To deprive of bones; to take out the bones of; to bone.

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Eyestone noun · 78% connection

A small, lenticular, calcareous body, esp. an operculum of a small marine shell of the family Turbinidae, used to remove a foreign sub…

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Forsake verb · 78% connection

To quit or leave entirely; to desert; to abandon; to depart or withdraw from; to leave; as, false friends and flatterers forsake us in…

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Furlough adjective · 78% connection

Leave of abserice; especially, leave given to an offcer or soldier to be absent from service for a certain time; also, the document gr…

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Gliadin noun · 78% connection

Vegetable glue or gelatin; glutin. It is one of the constituents of wheat gluten, and is a tough, amorphous substance, which resembles…

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