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[ os-uh-fahyd ] / ˈɒs əˌfaɪd / SEE SYNONYMS FOR ossified ON THESAURUS.COM
adjectivehardened like or into bone. Slang. drunk. Origin of ossifiedFirst recorded in 1790–1800; ossify + -ed2 OTHER WORDS FROM ossifiedun·os·si·fied, adjectiveWords nearby ossifiedOssie, Ossietzky, ossiferous, ossific, ossification, ossified, ossifrage, ossify, Ossining, osso bucco, ossobuco Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for ossifiedWho would you think more likely to reform an ossified economic system? Kim Jong Un & The Myth of the Reformer Dictator|Michael Moynihan|December 24, 2013|DAILY BEAST Although it makes no sense, this simplistic line has been repeated ad nauseam until it has ossified into accepted fact. Rx for Obamacare: Take a Chill Pill|Joe McLean|December 4, 2013|DAILY BEAST She only wrote two novels, but they establish her as the chronicler of an ossified generation unable to move forward in life. Renata Adler, Poet of a Chaotic Generation|Jen Vafidis|March 21, 2013|DAILY BEAST Between the vertebral and sternal portions an intermediate tract is separated off and ossified in the Monotremata. The Cambridge Natural History, Vol X., Mammalia|Frank Evers Beddard
The rows are much shortened but not disorganized and an ossified band extends across the junction. Scurvy Past and Present|Alfred Fabian Hess They are, however, ossified in the Armadillos and in some other animals. The Cambridge Natural History, Vol X., Mammalia|Frank Evers Beddard The rami of the mandible are united at the symphysis, and there is an ossified ring in the sclerotic. The Vertebrate Skeleton|Sidney H. Reynolds And the worst of it was, I couldn't tell him just the particular kind of ossified old pinhead I thought he was. The House of Torchy|Sewell Ford
British Dictionary definitions for ossified
adjectiveconverted into bone having become set and inflexible Irish slang intoxicated; drunk Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to ossifiedpetrified, hardened, fossilized, hard, rigid |