ossify(verb) become bony; "The tissue ossified"
(verb) cause to become hard and bony; "The disease ossified the tissue"
(verb) make rigid and set into a conventional pattern; "rigidify the training schedule"; "ossified teaching methods"; "slogans petrify our thinking"
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