ossify

Verbs

  • (v) become bony
    • The tissue ossified
  • (v) make rigid and set into a conventional pattern
    • rigidify the training schedule
    • ossified teaching methods
    • slogans petrify our thinking
    rigidify, petrify,
  • (v) cause to become hard and bony
    • The disease ossified the tissue

Synonyms

rigidify petrify

Words of close approximity