ossified
Speech parts
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
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obsolete fossilized ways
an ossified bureaucratic system
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.
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.
The long period of Brezhnev's rule had come to be dubbed one of "standstill", with an aging and ossified top political leadership.
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.