OSSIFY Synonyms

• cause to become stonelike or stiff or dazed and stunned from fright

• change into stone

• make rigid and set into a conventional pattern

• transformed from a liquid into a soft semisolid or solid mass

• change from a liquid to a thickened or solid state

• cause to change from a liquid to a solid or thickened state

• become gelatinous

• make strong or stronger

• enclose by or as if by a fortification

• prepare oneself for a military confrontation

• add nutrients to

• add alcohol to (beverages)

• the withdrawal of heat to change something from a liquid to a solid

• weather cold enough to cause freezing

• an interruption or temporary suspension of progress or movement

• fixing (of prices or wages etc) at a particular level

• stop moving or become immobilized

• change to ice

• be cold

• cause to freeze

• stop a process or a habit by imposing a freeze on it

• be very cold, below the freezing point

• change from a liquid to a solid when cold

• prohibit the conversion or use of (assets)

• anesthetize by cold

• suddenly behave coldly and formally

• make solid or more solid; cause to solidify

• become solid

• become stiff or stiffer

• make stiff or stiffer

• severely restrict in scope or extent

• become rigid

• make rigid and set into a conventional pattern