ossified

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Definition of ossified

4 senses · 2 parts of speech

adj

  1. Having undergone the process of ossification (transformation into bone or a bone-like mass).
    “ossified cartilage”
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adj

  1. Having undergone the process of ossification (transformation into bone or a bone-like mass).
    “ossified cartilage”
  2. (figuratively)Inflexible, old-fashioned.
    “Launching a new platform, he said, was like starting a new country: Getting users to move from an established network that had an ossified economy and social classes to a new network requires the possibility of success — the lure of the American Dream.”
  3. (Ireland, US, slang)Drunk.
    “"Hey, are you ossified, fat daddy?[…]I want to get stinkin', paralyzin', forgettin'-drunk[…]."”
    “At Wanda's house, two nights before the wedding, she, Jenny, and two other girls were doing shots with beer chasers while Tom and I and another guy watched as they all got ossified.”

verb

  1. (form-of, participle, past)simple past and past participle of ossify

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