ossify

see definition of ossify

verbbecome hard from aging

Synonyms for ossify

verb become hard from aging

Antonyms for ossify

stabilize

verb. make or keep in steady state; make resistant to change

stabilized

verb. make or keep in steady state; make resistant to change

Word Origin & History

1713, "to turn into bone," a back-formation from ossification, or else modeled on French ossifier (18c.) and formed from Latin os (genitive ossis) "bone" (see osseous) + -fy. Figurative sense is from 1858. Related: Ossified; ossifying.

Example Sentences for ossify

There is a general growth to be observed, and the bones are beginning to ossify.

The first vertebra to ossify is the second or third cervical, and the ossification gradually extends to those behind.

The mentomecklians do not ossify until approximately the same time that the quadratojugal appears in the upper jaw.

Convictions harden and grow, and differences magnify and ossify as the controversy progresses.

The latter will always take care of themselves—the danger being that they rapidly tend to ossify us.

Valves of the Aorta of a cartilaginous texture, as if beginning to ossify.

The other element, the cartilaginous brain-box, does not ossify, and tends to become absorbed (p. 124).

Does it liberate or suppress, ossify or render flexible, divide or unify interest?

But Philip seemed to ossify, every cord and muscle of his body frozen to stone by the conflict that raged within him.

"And give you indigestion and see you ossify for want of exercise under my indulgent eye," retorted her mother.

ossify

Synonyms for ossify

Antonyms for ossify

indurate

indurated

inspissate

stabilize

stabilized

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indurate

indurated

inspissate

stabilize

stabilized

Synonyms for ossify

harden