2. (Fig.): To harden; as, to ossify the heart. --Ruskin. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
ossified — ossified; un·ossified; … English syllables
Ossified — Os si*fied, a. Changed to bone or something resembling bone; hardened by deposits of mineral matter of any kind; said of tissues. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
ossified — I adjective bony, calcified, calloused, congealed, crystallized, dense, firm, fossilized, hard, hardened, incrassate, incrassated, indurated, lapidified, petrified, solid, solidified, stiff, stiffened, stony, thick, thickened, tough, toughened,… … Law dictionary
ossified — [adj] bony fossilized, hard, hardened, petrified, rigid; concepts 404,542 … New thesaurus
ossified — [“asafaid] mod. alcohol or drug intoxicated. (From stoned (out).) □ How an anybody be so ossified on four beers? □ I’ve never seen anybody so ossified … Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions
ossified — adj Drunk, intoxicated. He was so ossified we had to drag him to the car. 1920s … Historical dictionary of American slang
ossified — adjective set in a rigidly conventional pattern of behavior, habits, or beliefs obsolete fossilized ways an ossified bureaucratic system • Syn: ↑fossilized, ↑fossilised • Similar to: ↑inflexible … Useful english dictionary
ossified — /os euh fuyd /, adj. 1. hardened like or into bone. 2. Slang. drunk. [1790 1800; OSSIFY + ED2] * * * … Universalium
ossified — adjective Of ideas or attitudes, inflexible, old fashioned. Syn: deep seated, démodé, established, fixed, hard and fast, inflexible, ingrained, old fashioned … Wiktionary
ossified — Synonyms and related words: backed, bone, bony, calcified, callous, calloused, case hardened, crusted, crusty, crystallized, fossilized, granulated, hardened, hornified, incrusted, indurate, indurated, lapidified, osseous, ossicular, ossiferous,… … Moby Thesaurus
