Calcify


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.

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