ossify
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
become bony
The tissue ossified
Types & categories
- change state hypernym
Related & opposite
- ossification derivation
Sense 2 verb
make rigid and set into a conventional pattern
rigidify the training schedule
Types & categories
- stiffen hypernym
Related & opposite
- inflexibility derivation
- ossification derivation
- rigidity derivation
- ossification derivation
Sense 3 verb
cause to become hard and bony
The disease ossified the tissue
Types & categories
- change hypernym
Related & opposite
- ossification derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | ossification |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | change state |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | inflexibility |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | ossification |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | rigidity |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | ossification |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | stiffen |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | ossification |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | change |