'ossify' definitions:
verb
Become bony; "The tissue ossified"
verb
Make rigid and set into a conventional pattern; "rigidify the training schedule"; "ossified teaching methods"; "slogans petrify our thinking" [syn:
rigidify, ossify,
petrify]
verb
Cause to become hard and bony; "The disease ossified the tissue"
- anneal,
- brutalize,
- calcify,
- callous,
- case harden,
- cornify,
- firm,
- fossilize,
- harden,
- indurate,
- inure,
- lapidify,
- lithify,
- petrify,
- steel,
- temper,
- toughen,
- vitrify
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