1. Become bony
   "The tissue ossified" 
2. Make rigid and set into a conventional pattern
   "ossified teaching methods"
   - rigidify, petrify 
3. Cause to become hard and bony
   "The disease ossified the tissue"

Derived forms: ossified, ossifies, ossifying

See also: ossification

Type of: alter, change, change state, modify, stiffen, turn

Encyclopedia: Ossify

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