- ossified - changed into bone; hardened by deposits of mineral matter; "cartilages ossified with age"
Antonym: soft (indirect, via hard)
- fossilized, fossilised, ossified - set in a rigidly conventional pattern of behavior, habits, or beliefs; "obsolete fossilized ways"; "an ossified bureaucratic system"
Antonym: flexible (indirect, via inflexible)
- ossify - become bony; "The tissue ossified"
--1 is one way to change state, turn
Sample sentence:Derived form: noun ossification2
Something ----s
- rigidify, ossify, petrify - make rigid and set into a conventional pattern; "rigidify the training schedule"; "ossified teaching methods"; "slogans petrify our thinking"
--2 is one way to stiffen
Sample sentence:Derived forms: noun ossification3, noun ossification4
Something ----s something
- ossify - cause to become hard and bony; "The disease ossified the tissue"
--3 is one way to change, alter, modify
Sample sentences:Derived form: noun ossification2
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something