ossified Meaning, Definition & Usage

1. verb become bony
   ossify.
   
   • The tissue ossified
2. verb make rigid and set into a conventional pattern
   rigidify; petrify; ossify.
   
   • rigidify the training schedule
   • ossified teaching methods
   • slogans petrify our thinking
3. verb cause to become hard and bony
   ossify.
   
   • The disease ossified the tissue
4. adjective satellite set in a rigidly conventional pattern of behavior, habits, or beliefs
   fossilised; fossilized.
   
   • obsolete fossilized ways
   • an ossified bureaucratic system

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