Synonyms for ossify
ˈɒs əˌfaɪos·si·fy

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1. ossifyverb

   Synonyms:
   harden

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1. ossifyverb

   become bony

   "The tissue ossified"

   Synonyms:
   petrify, rigidify

2. rigidify, ossify, petrifyverb

   make rigid and set into a conventional pattern

   "rigidify the training schedule"; "ossified teaching methods"; "slogans petrify our thinking"

   Synonyms:
   lapidify, petrify, rigidify

3. ossifyverb

   cause to become hard and bony

   "The disease ossified the tissue"

   Synonyms:
   petrify, rigidify

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1. Nancy Pelosi:

   There is a disparity in access to capital in our country. We do not want this tragedy of a coronavirus to exacerbate that disparity or to ossify it, to solidify it.

2. Anthony Tata:

   It would not surprise me if eventually it came out that John Brennan was somehow allied with some foreign power because what John Brennan's doing is fomenting the division. You look at John Brennan tweets, you look at what John Brennan says, and John Brennan is doing Putin's bidding every day on Twitter. John Brennan is dividing this nation and John Brennan's trying to ossify the left against the right.

3. Johann von Goethe:

   The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.