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Verb
/ˈäsəˌfī/,
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ossifying, present participle; ossified, past tense; ossifies, 3rd person singular present; ossified, past participle;
  1. Turn into bone or bony tissue
    • - these tracheal cartilages may ossify
  2. Cease developing; be stagnant or rigid
    • - ossified political institutions
  1. become bony; "The tissue ossified"
  2. rigidify: make rigid and set into a conventional pattern; "rigidify the training schedule"; "ossified teaching methods"; "slogans petrify our thinking"
  3. (ossification) the developmental process of bone formation
  4. (ossification) the calcification of soft tissue into a bonelike material
  5. (ossification) the process of becoming rigidly fixed in a conventional pattern of thought or behavior
  6. (ossification) hardened conventionality
  7. (ossified) fossilized: set in a rigidly conventional pattern of behavior, habits, or beliefs; "obsolete fossilized ways"; "an ossified bureaucratic system"
  8. To transform (or cause to transform) from a softer animal substance into bone; particularly the processes of growth in humans and animals; To become (or cause to become) inflexible and rigid in habits or opinions; To grow (or cause to grow) formulaic and permanent; To calcify
  9. (ossified) Of ideas or attitudes, inflexible, old-fashioned
  10. (ossification) deposition of calcium salts to form hardened tissue such as bone
  11. (Ossification) Growth and development of bones.
  12. (Ossification) The process by which bone is formed. A mesh of collagen fibres is formed, after which a polysaccharide is produced. Finally, small calcium salt crystals are placed in this polysaccharide to form the bone.
  13. (Ossification) The process of creating bone. Commonly refers to normal bone-building; can also be used to describe a change from a softer tissue into bone. ...
  14. (Ossification) n. The universal result of administrative attempts to preserve an organization's strength and vitality.
  15. (Ossification) to harden like bone; become bone
  16. (ossification) a process where tissues are converted to bone.
  17. (os·si·fi·ca·tion) 1: the natural process of bone formation; the hardening into a bony substance 2: a mass of ossified tissue
  18. (Ossified) Made or converted into bone.
  19. (ossified) settled or rigidly fixed in a practice, custom, attitude, etc.
  20. (trans. or intrans.) – to make into bone; hence, to cease developing, and become rigidly set in conventional patterns
  21. (v) - harden; get stuck, rigid in ideas