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Apr 9, 2019
This week’s themeWords related to bones
This week’s words
bred-in-the-bone
ossify
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PRONUNCIATION:
(OS-uh-fy) 
MEANING:
verb tr., intr.:
1. To convert or change into bone.
2. To make or become rigid in thinking, attitudes, habits, etc.
1. To convert or change into bone.
2. To make or become rigid in thinking, attitudes, habits, etc.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin os (bone). Ultimately from the Indo-European root ost- (bone), which also gave us ossuary and ostracize. Earliest documented use: 1670.
USAGE:
“Mikhail Ugarov and Elena Gremina, playwrights who were husband and wife, were lamenting that Russian theater had grown ossified and distant from society’s problems.”
Sophia Kishkovsky; Moscow Theater Rebels, Husband and Wife, Are Dead; The New York Times; Jun 8, 2018.
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Sophia Kishkovsky; Moscow Theater Rebels, Husband and Wife, Are Dead; The New York Times; Jun 8, 2018.
See more usage examples of ossify in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.
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