Crossword-Solution: OSSIFIED
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Ossified | a. | Changed to bone or something resembling bone; hardened by deposits of mineral matter of any kind; -- said of tissues. |
| Ossified | imp. & p. p. | of Ossify |
We have 14 clues for the answer “OSSIFIED”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Became inflexible | 1 answer |
| Fixed rigidly in a custom. | 1 answer |
| Hardened into bone | 1 answer |
| Made onto bone | 1 answer |
| Turned to bone | 1 answer |
| converted into bone | 1 answer |
| Changed into bone | 2 answers |
| CONSISTING of bone | 2 answers |
| Like fossils | 3 answers |
| osseous | 5 answers |
| Ultra-conservative | 7 answers |
| Bony | 46 answers |
| hardened | 54 answers |
| Antiquated | 73 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with OSSIFIED (5)
The woman lived to be ninety-four, and was persuaded that the fetus was still in the abdomen, and directed a postmortem examination to be made after her decease, which was done, and a large cyst containing an ossified fetus was discovered in the left side of the cavity.
Albosius speaks of a mother carrying a child in an ossified condition in the uterus for twenty-eight years.
Another case was in a woman of sixty, who had conceived at twenty-six, and whose fetus was found, partly ossified, in the uterus after death.
Ankylosis of all the joints, with muscular atrophy, gives rise to a condition that has been popularly termed "ossified man." A case of this nature is described, the patient being a raftsman, aged seventeen, who suffered with inflammatory symptoms of the right great toe, which were followed in the next ten years by progressive involvement of all the joints of the extremities, and of the vertebrae and temporo-maxillary articulations, with accompanying signs of acute articular rheumatism.
Bass, the well-known "ossified man" of the dime museums, has been examined by many physicians, and was quite intelligent and cheerful in spite of his complete ankylosis.
Quotes with OSSIFIED (3)
Do not assume that order and stability are always good, in a society or in a universe. The old, the ossified, must always give way to new life and the birth of new things. Before the new things can be born the old must perish. This is a dangerous realization, because it tells us that we must eventually part with much of what is familiar to us. And that hurts. But that is part of the script of life. Unless we can psychologically accommodate change, we ourselves begin to die, i…
Homicide is not a sin. It is sometimes a necessary violence on resistant and ossified forms of existence which have ceased to be amusing. In the interests of an important and fascinating experiment, it can even become meritorious. Here is the starting point of a new apologia for sadism.
Islam influences every aspect of believers’ lives. Women are denied their social and economic rights in the name of Islam, and ignorant women bring up ignorant children. Sons brought up watching their mother being beaten will use violence. Why was it racist to ask this question? Why was it antiracist to indulge people’s attachment to their old ideas and perpetuate this misery? I read the works of the great thinkers of the Enlightenment — Spinoza, Locke, Kant, Mill, Voltaire —…
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Appears in: NYT, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1954–2019).