Dictionary Entry
ossify
ossify is a 6-letter English word with 6 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To form into bone; to change from a soft animal substance into bone, as by the deposition of lime salts. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 11 · 6 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To form into bone; to change from a soft animal substance into bone, as by the deposition of lime salts.
- 2transitive verb
Fig.: To harden; as, to ossify the heart.
- 3intransitive verb
To become bone; to change from a soft tissue to a hard bony tissue.
- 4verb
become bony
"The tissue ossified"
- 5verb
cause to become hard and bony
"The disease ossified the tissue"
- 6verb
make rigid and set into a conventional pattern
"rigidify the training schedule"
"ossified teaching methods"
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