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ossify

[ os-uh-fahy ]

verb (used with object)

ossified, ossifying.
  1. to convert into or cause to harden like bone.


verb (used without object)

ossified, ossifying.
  1. to become bone or harden like bone.
  2. to become rigid or inflexible in habits, attitudes, opinions, etc.:

    a young man who began to ossify right after college.

ossify

/ ˈɒ²õɪˌ´Ú²¹Éª /

verb

  1. to convert or be converted into bone
  2. intr (of habits, attitudes, etc) to become inflexible
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Derived Forms

  • ˈ´Ç²õ²õ¾±ËŒ´Ú¾±±ð°ù, noun
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Other ˜yÐÄvlogs From

  • ´Ç²õs¾±Â·´Ú¾±î€…e°ù noun
  • ³Ü²Ô·´Ç²õs¾±Â·´Ú²âi²Ô²µ adjective
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of ossify1

1705–15; < Latin ossi- (stem of os ) bone + -fy
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of ossify1

C18: from French ossifier, from Latin os bone + facere to make
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Example Sentences

The ossifying Republican opposition has prompted Democrats to accuse Mr Johnson and others of bowing to pressure from Mr Trump, who has urged his Capitol Hill allies to kill the bill.

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The proposed cleanup and redevelopment of this ossified power plant joins a growing collection of such projects across the nation.

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Nor can you, apparently, be a successful, divorced, outspoken biracial American career woman and thrive among the hierarchically ossified, stiff-upper-lip royal family.

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“It’s an ossified bastion of stodgy old engineers,†he said.

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They would be astonished at the rank unfreedoms justified by invoking their names and saddened by conservatives' efforts to ossify the Constitution in an imaginary past.

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