ossified

About 0.29 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Having undergone the process of ossification (transformation into bone or a bone-like mass).

   ossified cartilage

2. adjective Inflexible, old-fashioned.
3. adjective Drunk.
4. verb simple past and past participle of ossify

Similar words

fossilized hard inflexible rigid bureaucratic bony osseous osteoid preosseous osteogenetic

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