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ossify
[ os-uh-fahy ]
verb (used with object)
, os·si·fied, os·si·fy·ing.
- to convert into or cause to harden like bone.
verb (used without object)
, os·si·fied, os·si·fy·ing.
- to become bone or harden like bone.
- to become rigid or inflexible in habits, attitudes, opinions, etc.:
a young man who began to ossify right after college.
ossify
/ ˈɒsɪˌfaɪ /
verb
- to convert or be converted into bone
- intr (of habits, attitudes, etc) to become inflexible
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Derived Forms
- ˈossiˌfier, noun
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Other Words From
- ossi·fier noun
- un·ossi·fying adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of ossify1
C18: from French ossifier, from Latin os bone + facere to make
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Example Sentences
Valves of the Aorta of a cartilaginous texture, as if beginning to ossify.
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The other element, the cartilaginous brain-box, does not ossify, and tends to become absorbed (p. 124).
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There is a general growth to be observed, and the bones are beginning to ossify.
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Maimuni, through his religious Code, gave rabbinical Judaism a strong hold, and on the other hand he helped to ossify it.
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In the young animal the ends of both radius and ulna are seen to ossify from centres different from those forming the shafts.
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