Search Result:ossified
KK Pronunciation
〔 `ɑsәfaId 〕
Pronunciation
〔 ˋɒsifaid 〕
Overview of verb ossify
The verb ossify has 3 senses
- ossify -- (become bony; "The tissue ossified")
- rigidify, ossify, petrify -- (make rigid and set into a conventional pattern; "rigidify the training schedule"; "ossified teaching methods"; "slogans petrify our thinking")
- ossify -- (cause to become hard and bony; "The disease ossified the tissue")
Overview of adj ossified
The adj ossified has 1 sense
- fossilized, fossilised, ossified -- (set in a rigidly conventional pattern of behavior, habits, or beliefs; "obsolete fossilized ways"; "an ossified bureaucratic system")