Meaning & use
Ossifying
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Turning into bone, or becoming rigid, fixed, and resistant to change.
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The cartilage in a child's skeleton is gradually ossifying into bone.
Old bureaucratic habits were ossifying into permanent policy.
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From Latin 'os' (bone), used literally in anatomy and figuratively for institutions or ideas that become rigid.
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