Ossified synonyms and antonyms

Category:

Part of speech:

petrified
Petrify is to change organic matter into something stone like, or to cause extreme fear.
2
0
fossilized
In a state of fossilization; preserved in rock.
1
0
fossilised
set in a rigidly conventional pattern of behavior, habits, or beliefs
1
0
thickened
To strengthen; to confirm.
1
0
stiffened
(Intransitive) To become stiff.
1
0
set
To apply jewels to; stud:
1
0
congealed
To thicken; coagulate; jell
1
0
Advertisement
molten (antonym)
The definition of melt is to turn from a solid to liquid as a result of exposure to heat.
0
0
softened (antonym)
(Intransitive) To become soft or softer
0
0
hardened (related)
(Intransitive) To become hard (tough, resistant to pressure).
0
0
Find another word for ossified. In this page you can discover 10 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for ossified, like: petrified, fossilized, fossilised, thickened, stiffened, set, congealed, molten, softened and hardened.
Trending topics
More Articles

Ossified Sentence Examples

  • The ribs are eighteen or nineteen in number on each side, flattened, and united to the sternum by short, stout, tolerably well ossified sternal ribs.

  • The scapula is long and slender, the supra-scapular border being rounded, and slowly and imperfectly ossified.

  • No batrachian is known to possess an ossified azygous supraoccipital.

  • The vomer is broad, abruptly truncated in front, and deeply cleft behind, so as to embrace the rostrum of the sphenoid; the palatals have produced postero-external angles; the maxillo-palatals are slender at their origin, and extend obliquely inwards and forwards over the palatals, ending beneath the vomer in expanded extremities, not united either with one another or with the vomer, nor does the latter unite with the nasal septum, though that is frequently ossified.

  • Later those pads fuse with the anterior end of the centrum of the vertebra to which they belong; where the vertebral column is rendered inflexible, the disks are ossified with the centra and all trace of them is lost.

More sentences

Words that mention ossified in the Dictionary

Words near ossified in the Thesaurus