Crossword-Solution: OSSIFY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Ossify | v. t. | To form into bone; to change from a soft animal substance into bone, as by the deposition of lime salts. |
| Ossify | v. t. | Fig.: To harden; as, to ossify the heart. |
| Ossify | v. i. | To become bone; to change from a soft tissue to a hard bony tissue. |
We have 36 clues for the answer “OSSIFY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Turn bone-hard | 1 answer |
| Become bone | 1 answer |
| Become bone-hard | 1 answer |
| Become callous or set. | 1 answer |
| Become hardened | 1 answer |
| Become hindbound | 1 answer |
| Become inflexible | 1 answer |
| Become rigid and bonelike | 1 answer |
| Become rigid and inflexible | 1 answer |
| CHANGE into bone | 1 answer |
| CONVERT into bone | 1 answer |
| Get set in one's ways | 1 answer |
| Harden into bone | 1 answer |
| Lose flexibility | 1 answer |
| MAKE unprogressive | 1 answer |
| TURN into bone | 1 answer |
| Become callous | 2 answers |
| Bone up | 3 answers |
| turn to bone | 4 answers |
| Make callous | 4 answers |
| Harden, in a way | 4 answers |
| Become fixed | 5 answers |
| fossilise | 8 answers |
| BECOME rigid | 10 answers |
| BECOME RIGID OR IMMOVEABLE | 10 answers |
| CAUSE TO BECOME HARD AND BONY | 10 answers |
| A BRASS WITH FROM 1-4% MANGANESE TO HARDEN IT | 10 answers |
| BECOME BONY | 10 answers |
| A BONY HOLLOW INTO WHICH A STRUCTURE FITS | 11 answers |
| indurate | 17 answers |
| MAKE rigid | 21 answers |
| Solidify | 22 answers |
| Stiffen | 22 answers |
| Petrify | 24 answers |
| Thicken | 43 answers |
| Harden | 71 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
CEEMZA
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with OSSIFY (5)
All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify.
The fore-arm bones have begun to co-ossify and the ulna is greatly reduced, while the fibula, though still complete, is hardly more than a thread of bone.
All that we profess to do is but this,--to find out the secrets of the human frame; to know why the parts ossify and the blood stagnates, and to apply continual preventives to the effects of time.
Yes, I am, Avice,’ he answered sadly; for this inability to ossify with the rest of his generation threw him out of proportion with the time.
From the fact that the requirements of civilization ossify certain fibres of the heart and render callous certain membranes, we must not necessarily conclude that all men are bound to undergo this partial and exceptional death of the soul.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 29 times in crossword archives (1957–2023).