Hyphenation of ossified

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word ossified? This word can be hyphenated and contains 3 syllables as shown below.

os-si-fied

Definitions of ossified:

1.	Become bony The tissue ossified
2.	Make rigid and set into a conventional pattern Rigidify the training schedule Ossified teaching methods Slogans petrify our thinking
3.	Cause to become hard and bony The disease ossified the tissue
4.	Set in a rigidly conventional pattern of behavior, habits, or beliefs Obsolete fossilized ways An ossified bureaucratic system

Synonyms of ossified:

adj	hard
adj	fossilized, fossilised, inflexible

Last hyphenations of this language

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Hyphenator

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