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Wordnet 3.0
VERB (3)
1. become bony;
- Example: "The tissue ossified"
2. make rigid and set into a conventional pattern;
- Example: "rigidify the training schedule"
- Example: "ossified teaching methods"
- Example: "slogans petrify our thinking"
[syn: rigidify, ossify, petrify]
3. cause to become hard and bony;
- Example: "The disease ossified the tissue"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Ossify \Os"si*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ossified; p. pr. & vb. n. Ossifying.] [L. os, ossis, bone + -fy: cf. F. ossifier. See Osseous.] 1. (Physiol.) To form into bone; to change from a soft animal substance into bone, as by the deposition of lime salts. [1913 Webster] 2. (Fig.): To harden; as, to ossify the heart. --Ruskin. [1913 Webster]The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Ossify \Os"si*fy\, v. i. (Physiol.) To become bone; to change from a soft tissue to a hard bony tissue. [1913 Webster]Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
18 Moby Thesaurus words for "ossify": anneal, brutalize, calcify, callous, case harden, cornify, firm, fossilize, harden, indurate, inure, lapidify, lithify, petrify, steel, temper, toughen, vitrify
