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ossified
[ os-uh-fahyd ]
ossified
/ ˈɒsɪˌfaɪd /
adjective
- converted into bone
- having become set and inflexible
- slang.intoxicated; drunk
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Other Words From
- un·ossi·fied adjective
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Example Sentences
They create ossified institutions, paralyzed by groupthink and incapable of self-reflection.
Who would you think more likely to reform an ossified economic system?
Although it makes no sense, this simplistic line has been repeated ad nauseam until it has ossified into accepted fact.
She only wrote two novels, but they establish her as the chronicler of an ossified generation unable to move forward in life.
The bones are ossified in a great part of their extent, and the rudiments of the second set of teeth are visible, under the first.
It is again to development that we must turn to discover the true relationship of the cartilaginous to the ossified skull.
So that it might have been present in a fossil animal without being ossified and preserved.
The tail is elongated like that of Dimorphodon, and bordered in the same way by ossified ligaments.
The mentomecklians are ossified, but separated by cartilage medially.
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