Processes
Synonyms for ossify
The synonym for ossify recorded in this bank is stagnate, in the sense "to stop developing and become fixed or outdated". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for ossify
- stagnateverb, in the sense "to stop developing and become fixed or outdated"
One pair, read and signed off by a human before it shipped. The bank records a synonym per sense, so a second one appears here the day ossify is audited in a second meaning.
to stop developing and become fixed or outdated
Without new leadership, the organization's procedures began to ossify.
The true synonym
stagnate
Same sentence, swapped: Without new leadership, the organization's procedures began to stagnate.
Close but different
The game shows these three beside the answer. Each is a real word with a real meaning and none of them fits the slot ossify is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- flourish
- modernize
- streamline
Where ossify turns up in the game
ossify is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.
Play ossify
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so ossify reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Neighbours by theme before neighbours by difficulty, because processes is the company ossify keeps.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. ossify carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.