Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to ossify
Participle: ossified
Gerund: ossifying
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | ossify |
| you | ossify |
| he;she;it | ossifies |
| we | ossify |
| you | ossify |
| they | ossify |
Perfect
| I | have ossified |
| you | have ossified |
| he;she;it | has ossified |
| we | have ossified |
| you | have ossified |
| they | have ossified |
Past
| I | ossified |
| you | ossified |
| he;she;it | ossified |
| we | ossified |
| you | ossified |
| they | ossified |
Pluperfect
| I | had ossified |
| you | had ossified |
| he;she;it | had ossified |
| we | had ossified |
| you | had ossified |
| they | had ossified |
Future
| I | will ossify |
| you | will ossify |
| he;she;it | will ossify |
| we | will ossify |
| you | will ossify |
| they | will ossify |
Future Perfect
| I | will have ossified |
| you | will have ossified |
| he;she;it | will have ossified |
| we | will have ossified |
| you | will have ossified |
| they | will have ossified |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | ossify |
| you | ossify |
| he;she;it | ossify |
| we | ossify |
| you | ossify |
| they | ossify |
Perfect
| I | have ossified |
| you | have ossified |
| he;she;it | have ossified |
| we | have ossified |
| you | have ossified |
| they | have ossified |
Imperfect
| I | ossified |
| you | ossified |
| he;she;it | ossified |
| we | ossified |
| you | ossified |
| they | ossified |
Pluperfect
| I | had ossified |
| you | had ossified |
| he;she;it | had ossified |
| we | had ossified |
| you | had ossified |
| they | had ossified |
Conditional
Present
| I | would ossify |
| you | would ossify |
| he;she;it | would ossify |
| we | would ossify |
| you | would ossify |
| they | would ossify |
Perfect
| I | would have ossified |
| you | would have ossified |
| he;she;it | would have ossified |
| we | would have ossified |
| you | would have ossified |
| they | would have ossified |
Imperative
| you | ossify |
| we | Let's ossify |
| you | ossify |
Verbs conjugated like 'ossify'
accompany,
acetify,
acidify,
adsignify,
affy,
alacrify,
alkalify,
ally,
amnesty,
amplify,
angelify,
anglicify,
anglify,
apology,
apply,
arefy,
argufy,
astony,
atrophy,
avowtry, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'ossify'
basify,
easify,
gasify,
massify,
obesify,
oddify,
oldify,
omnify,
passify,
pussify,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 1713, "to turn into bone," from L.
os (gen.
ossis) "bone" (see osseous). Fig. sense is from 1858.
2. Back-formation from ossification, or modeled on French ossifier and formed from Latin os, ossis (“bone”) + -ify. See: French '
ossifier'.
Sample Sentences
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[…], nor do all bones of the same skeleton ossify during the samе period of time. [1884, Arthur C. Cole, Studies in Microscopical Science, page 35:]
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Before long, the entire organization ossifies. [1996, Peter Schwartz, The Art of the Long View, →ISBN, page 96:]
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Possession of absolute knowledge would ossify the human spirit, quenching human creativity; [2006, Michael S. Jones, Metaphysics of Religion: Lucian Blaga and Contemporary Philosophy, →ISBN, page 79:]
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This accidental repartition gets repeated, develops advantages of its own, and gradually ossifies into a systematic division of labour. [1886, Samuel Moore, “Chapter 14”, in Capital, volume I, translation of original by Karl Marx:]
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Now, in turn, we apply a revolutionary critique that […] ossifies into a rhetoric to become "the monstrous Latin of a monstrous church." [2001, Kevin O'Neill, David Suchoff, The Wisdom of Love, translation of original by Alain Finkielkraut, →ISBN, page 55:]
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[T]he charge threatens to ossify into conventional wisdom before the movie's audience can get to theaters to see how misguided it is. [2005 December 20, Michelle Goldberg, “The war on 'Munich'”, in Salon.com, archived from the original on 06 Mar 2008:]
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The cartilages become brittle, and in many instances are ossified; the ligaments are rendered harder, but are less capable of resisting extension. [1850, Roxey Ann Caplin, “Chapter X”, in Health and Beauty:]