ossified
Meaning of ossified
adjective
- having turned into bone or bony tissue.
ossified cartilage
- having become rigid or fixed in attitude or position.
an ossified institution
ossified business practices
late 17th century: from ossify.
verb, past tense- turn into bone or bony tissue.
these tracheal cartilages may ossify
- become rigid or fixed in attitude or position; cease developing.
our political system has ossified
late 17th century: from French ossifier, from Latin os, oss- ‘bone’.
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Hyphenation of ossified
os-si-fied
- It consists of 3 syllables and 8 chars.
- ossified is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
ossified synonyms
Meaning fossilized:
Meaning make or become hard or harder:
Meaning make or become hard or solid:
Meaning make or become stiff or rigid:
Meaning make or become rigid or inflexible:
Meaning change (organic matter) into a stony substance by encrusting or replacing it with a calcareous, siliceous, or other mineral deposit:
Meaning preserve (an animal or plant) so that it becomes a fossil:
Meaning harden:
Meaning (of water or air) cease to flow or move; become stagnant:
Words that rhyme with ossified
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