Ossify Synonyms and Antonyms

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Synonyms for Ossify

congeal
To solidify or coagulate:
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fossilize
To make outmoded or inflexible with time; antiquate.
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turn to bone
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petrify
To replace the normal cells of (organic matter) with silica or other mineral deposits; re-form as a stony substance
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set
To fix at a given amount:
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rigidify
To make rigid, to cause to be or become rigid.
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Antonyms for Ossify

soften
To undermine the morale of someone (often soften up).
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melt
To dissolve; disintegrate
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Words Related to Ossify

harden
To become solid, rigid, callous, etc.
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stiffen
To make or become stiff or stiffer
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thicken
(Intransitive) To become thicker (in the sense of more viscous).
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outmoded
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moribund
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Ossify Sentence Examples

  • When a religion begins to ossify into a system of formulas and observances, those who protest in the name of heart-religion are not unfrequently known by the name of mystics.

  • In their case the sternum begins to ossify from three very distinct points - one of which is the centre of ossification of Nitzsch's grouping.

  • For permaculture to remain alive - and not ossify into dogma - it must also change.

  • In the lower jaw of most of the Ecaudata the symphysial cartilages ossify separately from the dentary bones, forming the so-called mento-meckelian bones; but these symphysial bones, so distinct in the frog, are less so in the Hylidae and Bufonidae, almost indistinguishable in the Pelobatidae and Discoglossidae, whilst in the Aglossa they do not exist any more than in the other orders of batrachians.

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