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ossify

verb

1 ossify

Become bony.

2 ossify

Make rigid and set into a conventional pattern.

synonyms: petrify, rigidify.

Roget 323: render hard etc. adj.; harden, stiffen, indurate, petrify, temper, ossify, vitrify; accrust.   

3 ossify

Cause to become hard and bony.

Dutch: verkalken


Moby thesaurus: anneal, brutalize, calcify, callous, case harden, cornify, firm, fossilize, harden, indurate, inure, lapidify, lithify, petrify, steel, temper, toughen, vitrify.

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