ossify   (Sound)

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")