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ossified (root: ossify)
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective ossified has 1 sense
- ossified(s = adj.all) fossilised, fossilized - set in a rigidly conventional pattern of behavior, habits, or beliefs; "obsolete fossilized ways"; "an ossified bureaucratic system"
CIDE DICTIONARY
ossified, a.
Changed to bone or something resembling bone; hardened by deposits of mineral matter of any kind; -- said of tissues. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
ossified
backed, bone, bony, calcified, callous, calloused, case-hardened, crusted, crusty, crystallized, fossilized, granulated, hardened, hornified, incrusted, indurate, indurated, lapidified, osseous, ossicular, ossiferous, osteal, petrified, reinforced, rigidified, sclerotic, set, solidified, steeled, stiffened, strengthened, toughened, vitrified
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