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ossified
 
Adjective ossified has 2 senses
  1. ossified - changed into bone; hardened by deposits of mineral matter; "cartilages ossified with age"
    Antonym:     soft (indirect, via hard)
  2. fossilized, fossilised, ossified - set in a rigidly conventional pattern of behavior, habits, or beliefs; "obsolete fossilized ways"; "an ossified bureaucratic system"
    Antonym: flexible (indirect, via inflexible)
Verb ossify has 3 senses
  1. ossify - become bony; "The tissue ossified"
    --1 is one way to     change state, turn
    Derived form: noun ossification2
    Sample sentence:
    Something ----s
  2. rigidify, ossify, petrify - make rigid and set into a conventional pattern; "rigidify the training schedule"; "ossified teaching methods"; "slogans petrify our thinking"
    --2 is one way to stiffen
    Derived forms: noun ossification3, noun ossification4
    Sample sentence:
    Something ----s something
  3. ossify - cause to become hard and bony; "The disease ossified the tissue"
    --3 is one way to     change, alter, modify
    Derived form: noun ossification2
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Something ----s something
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