ossify

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To become (or cause to become) inflexible and rigid in habits or opinions

Possession of absolute knowledge would ossify the human spirit, quenching human creativity;.

To grow (or cause to grow) formulaic and permanent

he charge threatens to ossify into conventional wisdom before the movie's audience can get to theaters to see how misguided it is.

To transform (or cause to transform) from a softer animal substance into bone; particularly the processes of growth in humans and animals

, nor do all bones of the same skeleton ossify during the samе period of time.

To calcify

The cartilages become brittle, and in many instances are ossified; the ligaments are rendered harder, but are less capable of resisting extension.

to convert into bone
{v} to change, burn or harden into bone
become bony; "The tissue ossified" cause to become hard and bony; "The disease ossified the tissue
become bony; "The tissue ossified"
make rigid and set into a conventional pattern; "rigidify the training schedule"; "ossified teaching methods"; "slogans petrify our thinking"
disapproval If an idea, system, or organization ossifies or if something ossifies it, it becomes fixed and difficult to change. It reckons that rationing would ossify the farm industry British society tended to ossify and close ranks as the 1930s drew to their close. = fossilize
Turn to bone
{f} turn rigid; harden; turn into bone; become set in own ways
Fig
cause to become hard and bony; "The disease ossified the tissue"
\AH-suh-fy\, intransitive verb: 1 To change into bone; to become bony 2 To become hardened or set in a rigidly conventional pattern
to turn into bone
To become bone; to change from a soft tissue to a hard bony tissue
To harden; as, to ossify the heart
To form into bone; to change from a soft animal substance into bone, as by the deposition of lime salts
To become inflexible in ones habits or opinions
cause to become hard and bony; "The disease ossified the tissue
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the normal process by which bone is formed
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the process of becoming set in one's ways or beliefs; rigid conventionality
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Of ideas or attitudes, inflexible, old-fashioned
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Simple past tense and past participle of ossify
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{n} the act of changing to bone
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The state of being changed into a bony substance; also, a mass or point of ossified tissue
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hardened conventionality
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{i} changing into bone; hardening of soft tissue
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the developmental process of bone formation
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the calcification of tissue into a bonelike mass; the mass so formed
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The process of forming new bone
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hardened conventionality the developmental process of bone formation the process of becoming rigidly fixed in a conventional pattern of thught or behavior the calcification of soft tissue into a bonelike material
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The formation of bone; the process, in the growth of an animal, by which inorganic material (mainly lime salts) is deposited in cartilage or membrane, forming bony tissue; ostosis
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Biological process of skeletal cartilage converting to bone, often occurring between joints and on the end of the spinous process
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the process of becoming rigidly fixed in a conventional pattern of thught or behavior
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The hardening of soft tissues, such as ligament or cartilage, into bone This is often a part of the natural aging process
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The process of forming bone in the body
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Ossification (osteogenesis) is a three-stage process by which bone is formed The first step is the formation of a mesh of collagen fibers Next, the body produces a "cement" substance (polysaccharide) Finally, small crystals of calcium salts are deposited into the cement to form bone
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the calcification of soft tissue into a bonelike material
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the process of becoming set in ones ways or beliefs; rigid conventionality
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The natural process of bone formation
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to harden like bone; become bone
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Changed to bone or something resembling bone; hardened by deposits of mineral matter of any kind; said of tissues
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changed into bone; hardened by deposits of mineral matter; "cartilages ossified with age"
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set in a rigidly conventional pattern of behavior, habits, or beliefs; "obsolete fossilized ways"; "an ossified bureaucratic system"
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changed into bone; hardened by deposits of mineral matter; "cartilages ossified with age
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past of ossify
ossifying
Changing into bone; becoming bone; as, the ossifying process
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