Word Meanings - OSSIFY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To form into bone; to change from a soft animal substance into bone, as by the deposition of lime salts. 2. Fig.: To harden; as, to ossify the heart. Ruskin. (more info) Etym:

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of OSSIFY)

• Blunt
• To subdue
• repress
• tranquilize
• discourage
• ossify
• numb
• harden

Related words: (words related to OSSIFY)

• OSSIFY
  To become bone; to change from a soft tissue to a hard bony tissue.
• REPRESSIBLE
  Capable of being repressed.
• BLUNTISH
  Somewhat blunt. -- Blunt"ish*ness, n.
• DISCOURAGEMENT
  1. The act of discouraging, or the state of being discouraged; depression or weakening of confidence; dejection. 2. That which discourages; that which deters, or tends to deter, from an undertaking, or from the prosecution of anything; a determent;
• BLUNTLY
  In a blunt manner; coarsely; plainly; abruptly; without delicacy, or the usual forms of civility. Sometimes after bluntly giving his opinions, he would quietly lay himself asleep until the end of their deliberations. Jeffrey.
• TRANQUILIZE; TRANQUILLIZE
  To render tranquil; to allay when agitated; to compose; to make calm and peaceful; as, to tranquilize a state disturbed by factions or civil commotions; to tranquilize the mind. Syn. -- To quiet; compose; still; soothe; appease; calm; pacify. (more
• SUBDUEMENT
  Subdual. Shak.
• SUBDUE
  1. To bring under; to conquer by force or the exertion of superior power, and bring into permanent subjection; to reduce under dominion; to vanquish. I will subdue all thine enemies. 1 Chron. xvii. 10. 2. To overpower so as to disable from further
• REPRESS
  To press again.
• TRANQUILIZER; TRANQUILLIZER
  One who, or that which, tranquilizes.
• BLUNTNESS
  1. Want of edge or point; dullness; obtuseness; want of sharpness. The multitude of elements and bluntness of angles. Holland. 2. A bruptness of address; rude plainness. "Bluntness of speech." Boyle.
• OSSIFYING
  Changing into bone; becoming bone; as, the ossifying process.
• DISCOURAGER
  One who discourages. The promoter of truth and the discourager of error. Sir G. C. Lewis.
• HARDEN
  1. To become hard or harder; to acquire solidity, or more compactness; as, mortar hardens by drying. The deliberate judgment of those who knew him has hardened into tradition. The Century. 2. To become confirmed or strengthened, in either a good
• REPRESSER
  One who, or that which, represses.
• BLUNT
  1. Having a thick edge or point, as an instrument; dull; not sharp. The murderous knife was dull and blunt. Shak. 2. Dull in understanding; slow of discernment; stupid; -- opposed to acute. His wits are not so blunt. Shak. 3. Abrupt in address;
• DISCOURAGEABLE
  Capable of being discouraged; easily disheartened. Bp. Hall.
• HARDENING
  1. Making hard or harder. 2. That which hardens, as a material used for converting the surface of iron into steel.
• REPRESSIVE
  Having power, or tending, to repress; as, repressive acts or measures. -- Re*press"ive*ly, adv.
• SUBDUER
  One who, or that which, subdues; a conqueror. Spenser.
• OVERHARDEN
  To harden too much; to make too hard. Boyle.
• SELF-HARDENING
  Designating, or pert. to, any of various steels that harden when heated to above a red heat and cooled in air, usually in a blast of cold air with moderate rapidity, without quenching. Such steels are alloys of iron and carbon with manganese,
• IRREPRESSIBLY
  In a manner or to a degree that can not be repressed.
• CASEHARDEN
  1. To subject to a process which converts the surface of iron into steel. 2. To render insensible to good influences.
• ENHARDEN
  To harden; to embolden. Howell.
• CASEHARDENED
  1. Having the surface hardened, as iron tools. 2. Hardened against, or insusceptible to, good influences; rendered callous by persistence in wrongdoing or resistance of good influences; -- said of persons.