OSSIFY


Meaning of OSSIFY in English

v. 25B6; verb

these cartilages may ossify : TURN INTO BONE, become bony, harden, solidify, rigidify, petrify.

ossified political institutions : BECOME INFLEXIBLE, become rigid, fossilize, rigidify, stagnate.

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