OSSIFY

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.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin os (bone). Ultimately from the Indo-European root ost- (bone), which also gave us ossuary and ostracize. Earliest documented use: 1670.
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MOSSIFY - when a stone stops rolling

OSHIFY - becoming a government bureaucracy concerned with job safety

OSSIFRY - a passel of overcooked little fish