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• having turned into bone or bony tissue.

• "ossified cartilage"

• having become rigid or fixed in attitude or position.

• "an ossified institution"

Origin: late 17th century: from ossify.

• turn into bone or bony tissue.

• "these tracheal cartilages may ossify"

Similar: turn into bone, become bony, harden, solidify, stiffen, rigidify, petrify, fossilize, indurate,

• become rigid or fixed in attitude or position; cease developing.

• "our political system has ossified"

Similar: become inflexible, become rigid, fossilize, harden, rigidify, stagnate, become unyielding/obdurate, become unprogressive, cease developing,

Origin: late 17th century: from French ossifier, from Latin os, oss- ‘bone’.