ossifies
Turns to bone
Ossifies means turns to bone.
Cartilage ossifies as children grow, hardening into the skeletal structure.
Figuratively, ossifies describes ideas, institutions, or attitudes becoming rigid and resistant to change: The bureaucracy ossified over decades of inertia.
His political views ossified in his thirties and never evolved.
Becomes less pliable
- hardensBecomes firm or solid
- solidifiesBecomes hard or firm
- setsGrouped items together
- fixesRepairs or solutions
freezes · congeals · crystallizes · cements · petrifies · inflexible · unyielding · immutable
Hard skeletal tissue
- cartilageFlexible connective body tissue
- calciumElement twenty, builds bones
- mineralizationConversion to mineral form
- osteoblastBone-forming cell
skeleton · osteocyte · collagen · vertebrate · fontanelle · matrix · orthopedic · chondrocyte
State of inactivity
- inertiaResistance to altered motion
- unchangingNot varying at all
- fixedRestored or immovable
- dormantInactive but capable
static · stale · rigid · hidebound · entrenched · bureaucratic · institutional · outdated
Becoming rock-like
- prehistoricBefore documented civilization
- remainsContinues in place
- preservationMaintaining something's condition
- sedimentationParticles settling in liquid
paleontology · bones · mineralized · ancient · embedded · rock · geological · trace
stiffens
Becomes less pliable
- hardensBecomes firm or solid
- solidifiesBecomes hard or firm
- setsGrouped items together
fixes · freezes · congeals · crystallizes · cements · petrifies · inflexible · unyielding · immutable · permanent
bone
Hard skeletal tissue
- cartilageFlexible connective body tissue
- calciumElement twenty, builds bones
- mineralizationConversion to mineral form
osteoblast · skeleton · osteocyte · collagen · vertebrate · fontanelle · matrix · orthopedic · chondrocyte · epiphysis
stasis
State of inactivity
- inertiaResistance to altered motion
- unchangingNot varying at all
- fixedRestored or immovable
dormant · static · stale · rigid · hidebound · entrenched · bureaucratic · institutional · outdated · inflexible
petrification
Becoming rock-like
- prehistoricBefore documented civilization
- remainsContinues in place
- preservationMaintaining something's condition
sedimentation · paleontology · bones · mineralized · ancient · embedded · rock · geological · trace · organic