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ossified

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1. ossified - Adjective

2. ossified - Verb

Derived from ossify

4. ossified - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Changed to bone or something resembling bone; hardened by deposits of mineral matter of any kind; -- said of tissues.

of Ossify

Source: Webster's dictionary

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obsolete fossilized ways Source: Internet

an ossified bureaucratic system Source: Internet

As I have written a lot recently, England’s handling of the pandemic proves that its creaking, centralised system of government, full of ossified practices and institutionalised prejudice, needs to be thoroughly localised and democratised. Source: Internet

But ultimately civil conflicts with political roots cannot be resolved without domestic will and leadership, and Cameroon's ossified political class has thus far failed to muster either. Source: Internet

The long period of Brezhnev's rule had come to be dubbed one of "standstill", with an aging and ossified top political leadership. Source: Internet

In just two years, Modi galvanized an ossified Indian bureaucracy and gave a new sense of purpose to India’s engagement with the United States. Source: Internet

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