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    ossify - Dictionary definition and meaning for word ossify

    Definition
    (verb) become bony
    Example Sentence
    • The tissue ossified
    Definition
    (verb) make rigid and set into a conventional pattern
    Synonyms : petrify , rigidify
    Example Sentence
    • rigidify the training schedule
    • ossified teaching methods
    • slogans petrify our thinking
    Definition
    (verb) cause to become hard and bony
    Example Sentence
    • The disease ossified the tissue
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for ossify

remember it with "fossil"--bodies become hard fossils(bones)

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root word is os means "bone" and in sanskrit it means "asthi".

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concentrate on "oss". its similar to "ooze" to freeze .something becomes hard or fixed

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aussie chicks give me boner

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sound like Aussie..made of bones

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The oosse are harden like bones

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oss-stress it!!ox which is hard

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