Usually means: Turn into bone or harden.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. ossify: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. ossify: Merriam-Webster
  3. ossify: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. ossify: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. ossify: Collins English Dictionary
  6. ossify: Vocabulary.com
  7. ossify: Wordnik
  8. ossify: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. ossify: Wiktionary
  10. ossify: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. ossify: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. ossify: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. ossify: Dictionary.com
  14. ossify: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Ossify: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Ossify: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. ossify: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. ossify: Rhymezone
  19. Ossify: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. ossify: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. ossify: FreeDictionary.org
  22. ossify: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  23. ossify: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. ossify: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ossify: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ossify: Encyclopedia

Medicine (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. ossify: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Ossify: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Ossify: MedFriendly Glossary
  5. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  6. ossify: Medical dictionary
  7. Ossify: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ossify: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Ossify: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (ambitransitive) To transform (or cause to transform) from a softer animal substance into bone; particularly the processes of growth in humans and animals.
verb:  (ambitransitive, animate) To become (or cause to become) inflexible and rigid in habits or opinions.
verb:  (ambitransitive, inanimate) To grow (or cause to grow) formulaic and permanent.
verb:  (rare) To calcify.

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