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Antonyms for ossify

Grammar : Verb
Spell : os-uh-fahy
Phonetic Transcription : ˈɒs əˌfaɪ


Definition of ossify

Origin :
  • 1713, "to turn into bone," a back-formation from ossification, or else modeled on French ossifier (18c.) and formed from Latin os (genitive ossis) "bone" (see osseous) + -fy. Figurative sense is from 1858. Related: Ossified; ossifying.
  • verb become hard from aging
Example sentences :
  • There is a general growth to be observed, and the bones are beginning to ossify.
  • Extract from : « Embryology » by Gerald R. Leighton
  • The first vertebra to ossify is the second or third cervical, and the ossification gradually extends to those behind.
  • Extract from : « The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume III (of 4) » by Francis Maitland Balfour
  • The mentomecklians do not ossify until approximately the same time that the quadratojugal appears in the upper jaw.
  • Extract from : « Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus Smilisca » by William E. Duellman
  • Convictions harden and grow, and differences magnify and ossify as the controversy progresses.
  • Extract from : « Lord Randolph Churchill » by Winston Spencer Churchill
  • The latter will always take care of themselves—the danger being that they rapidly tend to ossify us.
  • Extract from : « Complete Prose Works » by Walt Whitman
  • Valves of the Aorta of a cartilaginous texture, as if beginning to ossify.
  • Extract from : « An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses » by William Withering
  • The other element, the cartilaginous brain-box, does not ossify, and tends to become absorbed (p. 124).
  • Extract from : « Form and Function » by E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell
  • Does it liberate or suppress, ossify or render flexible, divide or unify interest?
  • Extract from : « Human Nature and Conduct » by John Dewey
  • But Philip seemed to ossify, every cord and muscle of his body frozen to stone by the conflict that raged within him.
  • Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1930 » by Victor Rousseau
  • "And give you indigestion and see you ossify for want of exercise under my indulgent eye," retorted her mother.
  • Extract from : « Marjorie Dean » by Pauline Lester

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