ossify

/ˈɒsɪfaɪ/verb

उच्चारण ऑसिफ़ाइ

जड़ हो जाना, रूढ़ हो जाना, कठोर बना देना

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verbossifies, ossifying, ossified

1
[I/T] formal, disapproving
to become or make something fixed and unable to change
जड़ हो जाना, रूढ़ हो जाना, कठोर बना देना
- Without fresh ideas, the party's thinking had ossified.
- an ossified bureaucracy
Synonyms stagnate harden fossilise rigidify
Opposite evolve adapt develop
2
[I/T] technical
to become hard like bone; to change something into bone
अस्थि बन जाना, हड्डी में बदलना
- In older people the cartilage may ossify.

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From Latin os, meaning 'bone'.

यह Latin शब्द os से बना है, जिसका अर्थ 'हड्डी' है।