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Ossified

adj, verb, slang

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Having undergone the process of ossification (transformation into bone or a bone-like mass).

    "ossified cartilage"

  2. 2
    Inflexible, old-fashioned. figuratively

    "Launching a new platform, he said, was like starting a new country: Getting users to move from an established network that had an ossified economy and social classes to a new network requires the possibility of success — the lure of the American Dream."

  3. 3
    Drunk. Ireland, US, slang

    "At Wanda's house, two nights before the wedding, she, Jenny, and two other girls were doing shots with beer chasers while Tom and I and another guy watched as they all got ossified."

Adjective
  1. 1
    set in a rigidly conventional pattern of behavior, habits, or beliefs wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    simple past and past participle of ossify form-of, participle, past

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