Definitions for ossified

Overview of verb ossify

The verb ossify has 3 senses? (first 1 from tagged texts)

1. (1) ossify

(become bony; "The tissue ossified")

2. rigidify, ossify, petrify

(make rigid and set into a conventional pattern; "rigidify the training schedule"; "ossified teaching methods"; "slogans petrify our thinking")

3. ossify

(cause to become hard and bony; "The disease ossified the tissue")

Overview of adj ossified

The adj ossified has 1 senses? (no senses from tagged texts)

1. fossilized, fossilised, ossified

(set in a rigidly conventional pattern of behavior, habits, or beliefs; "obsolete fossilized ways"; "an ossified bureaucratic system")