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The disease ossified the tissueossified = hardened into bone
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ossified teaching methods
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This process is ossification. (source)ossification = the process of becoming rigid and inflexible
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All past oligarchies have fallen from power either because they ossified or because they grew soft. (source)ossified = became rigid and inflexible
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I could tell you the ossification pattern for fetal bones, but that's about it.† (source)
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Shiny slabs of black rock, ossified lava flow, covered much of the ground.† (source)
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We protect mundanes we do not love from forces of which they remain ignorant, and an ancient, ossified Law prevents us from revealing ourselves as their saviors.† (source)
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"Look," Esther said, "I'm not saying we have to go to Ossify.† (source)
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of stages of gradual collapsing whose particles adhere not to some iron and still impervious framework but to one another as though in some communal and oblivious and mindless life of their own like a colony of maggots, but as the demon himself had grown old with a kind of condensation, an anguished emergence of the primary indomitable ossification which the soft color and texture, the light electric aura of youth, had merely temporarily assuaged but never concealed—the spinster in homemade and shapeless clothing, with hands which could either transfer eggs or hold a plow straight in furrow) decided that he should be driven in to that same Methodist church in town where he had married† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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Time solidifies, ossifies the waiting into molecules of stone, dark microscopic planets that swirl through the universe of my body waiting for light and the morning.† (source)
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This was what slavery could do, in the way of ossifying what one may call the superior lobe of human feeling; for these pilgrims were kind-hearted people, and they would not have allowed that man to treat a horse like that.† (source)
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—merely rational thought leaves the mind incurably crippled in a closed and ossified system, it can only extrapolate from the past.† (source)
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All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify.† (source)
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Must be ossified to forget he left this out.† (source)
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It's better than going to open mike night at Ossify and watching some guy recite his shopping list over a drumbeat.† (source)
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Say, he was simply ossified!† (source)
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