ossified

Verb

• become bony
  • "The tissue ossified"
• make rigid and set into a conventional pattern
  • "ossified teaching methods"
• cause to become hard and bony
  • "The disease ossified the tissue"
• simple past and past participle of ossify

Adjective Satellite

• set in a rigidly conventional pattern of behavior, habits, or beliefs
  • "an ossified bureaucratic system"

Adj

• Having undergone the process of ossification (transformation into bone or a bone-like mass).
• Inflexible, old-fashioned.
• Drunk.

Examples

• ossified cartilage

Synonyms

fossilised, fossilized, ossify, petrify, rigidify, Adrian Quist, Brahms, Brahms and Liszt, Havishamesque, MWI, Miss Havishamesque, Mozart and Liszt, Oliver, Oliver Twist, a sheet in the wind, a sheet in the wind's eye, adrip, aled up, all mops and brooms, anachronistic, antediluvial, antediluvian, antiquated, antique, archaic, arseholed, backward, backwards, basic, bedrunken, befuddled, behind the times, beliquored, besotted, besotten, bevvied, bibacious, bibulous, bingoed, binned, bladdered, blasted, blewed, blind, blind drunk, blitzed, blocked, blootered, blottoed, blue, bollocksed, bombed, boozy, bosky, bottled, budgy, bungalowed, bungfu, burlin', canned, cheugy, clobbered, cobwebbed, cobwebby, cocked, cockeyed, corned, crapulous, cringe, cringeworthy, cringey, crocked, cunted, cup-shot, cup-shotten, cut, dated, dead drunk, defunct, destroyed, discontinued, disguised, disused, dootsie, drunk, drunk as a piper, drunked up, drunken, démodé, ebriated, ebriose, elderly, elephant's, elephant's trunk, elevated, expired, extinct, faced, fap, feeling no pain, fershnickered, flooey, floored, flush, flushed, flustered, fluted, fluthered, fou, four sheets in the wind, fresh, fried, frosted, fuckered up, fuckfaced, fuddled, full, fuzzy-headed, fuzzy-minded, gassed, gattered, gee-eyed, gesuip, ginned, gished, glorious, groggified, groggy, half cut, half lit, half polluted, half seas over, hammered, have drink taken, have the sun in one's eyes, hazed, high, high as a Georgia pine, high as a kite, hog-whimpering, honkers, hooched up, hooted, hoovered, hosed, how came you so, idle, impaired, in liquor, in one's altitudes, in one's cups, in the bag, in the drink, inebriate, inebriated, inebrious, inelegant, inflexible, insober, insobrietous, inter pocula, jaked, jarred, juiced, juiced up, kaylied, kisky, lamped, langered, langers, larruped, lash, lashed, last year, lathered, legless, liquored up, liquory, lit, loaded, locked, looped, loopy, loose, lubed, lubed up, lubricated, lushed, mad with it, maggot, maggoted, mashed, maudlin, medicated, messed up, monged, mortal, mortalled, muddled, muggy, mullered, munted, muzzy, nappy, newted, nimptopsical, normie, obfuscated, obliviated, obsolete, off one's box, off one's head, off one's tits, oiled, oiled up, old, old school, old-fashioned, old-hat, oldfangled, on the ran tan, ossified, out, out of date, out of fashion, out of it, out of one's box, out of one's face, out of one's head, out of sight, out of touch, outdated, outmoded, outworn, overcome, overrefreshed, overtaken, parachronistic, paralytic, parlatic, passé, pickled, pie-eyed, pixilated, plastered, ploughed, plowed, polluted, potshot, potted, pounded, primed, puggled, quisby, raddled, rat-arsed, ratted, razzled, rigid, rinky-dink, ripe, ripped, rolling, rubbered, sauced, sauced up, scammered, schloshed, schnockered, screwed, scuttered, sewed up, shedded, shellacked, shicker, shickered, shitty, skunked, slammed, slarmied, slizzard, sloppy drunk, sloshed, smashed, snockered, snookered, snozzled, snuffy, soaken, sodden, sotted, sottish, souped-up, soused, sozzled, sozzly, spanceled, spannered, spiffed, splashed, spongy, sprung, squiffed, steamboats, stewed, stinking, stinko, stoated, stoned, stonkered, stotious, strut, superannuated, superseded, swacked, tacky, tanked, tanked up, temulent, temulentive, three sheets in the wind, three sheets to the wind, throwed, tight, tight as a tick, tilted, tippled, tipsy, tired and emotional, toasted, top-heavy, top-heavy with drink, toping, trashed, tuned, twatfaced, twisted, unchic, uncool, unemployed, unfashionable, unhip, unoccupied, unpopular, unstylish, untrendy, venerable, wastey, wazzed, wazzocked, well-oiled, wellied, wet, whittled, withered, wobbly, woozy, workless, worse for liquor, worse for wear, wrecked, zoned, zonked, zooted, zorched, zotzed

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