Overview of verb ossify

The verb ossify has 3 senses

• ossify -- (become bony; "The tissue ossified")


• rigidify, ossify, petrify -- (make rigid and set into a conventional pattern; "rigidify the training schedule"; "ossified teaching methods"; "slogans petrify our thinking")


• ossify -- (cause to become hard and bony; "The disease ossified the tissue")

Overview of adj ossified

The adj ossified has 1 sense

• fossilized, fossilised, ossified -- (set in a rigidly conventional pattern of behavior, habits, or beliefs; "obsolete fossilized ways"; "an ossified bureaucratic system")