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ossify
to harden or become rigid and resistant to change
Synonyms
- harden
- rigidify
- calcify
Antonyms
- soften
- loosen
- adapt
ossify in a sentence
Without regular review, useful traditions can ossify into burdensome rules.
Over time, the once flexible organization ossified into a rigid bureaucracy.
Where it comes from
From Latin os, meaning 'bone,' and facere, meaning 'to make.'
Memory hook
OSS means bone: to ossify is to become bone-hard.
Read it in context
- The Juniper Recovery Nature