ossify

Verb

Meaning

To form into bone; to change from a soft animal substance into bone, as by the deposition of lime salts.

Fig.: To harden; as, to ossify the heart.

To become bone; to change from a soft tissue to a hard bony tissue.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

harden petrify rigidify cake freeze temper solidify crystallize clot bake stiffen callous thicken coagulate toughen
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Antonyms

bloom burgeon develop spread combat grow
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Hypernyms

change turn alter modify stiffen change state

Related terms

ossification ossifier

Derivatives

ossified ossifying

Examples

I think ideas should be flying about and banging into each other. It is a kind of energy. If you occupy static positions, then things sort of ossify. Tom Paulin

The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The tissue ossified Source: Internet

The disease ossified the tissue Source: Internet

rigidify the training schedule Source: Internet

ossified teaching methods Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

ossifraga ossifrage ossifragous ossifying ossilegium Ossining