1. changing into bone or bony tissue
Usage: medical
2. becoming rigid or set in one’s ways
Usage: figurative

1. becoming bone-like or hardened

Examples

• The cartilage is ossifying as the child grows.
• X-rays showed the fracture was ossifying properly.
• His attitudes are ossifying with age.
• The organization’s ossifying bureaucracy resisted change.
• The ossifying tissue will eventually form solid bone.
• Her once-flexible thinking was ossifying into rigid beliefs.
• The doctor monitored the ossifying growth plate.