OSSIFY

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

Mnemonics for ossify

(Tag: english) remember it with "fossil"--bodies become hard fossils(bones)
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(Tag: ) root word is os means "bone" and in sanskrit it means "asthi".
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(Tag: English) concentrate on "oss". its similar to "ooze" to freeze .something becomes hard or fixed
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(Tag: ) aussie chicks give me boner
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(Tag: ) sound like Aussie..made of bones
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(Tag: ) oss-stress it!!ox which is hard
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