ankylosed
Verb
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Verb
- Simple past tense and past participle of ankylose
ankylosed
- Stiffened or inflexible, with regard to the bones or joints; figuratively, stiff, cramped, rigid.
- August 1935, Clark Ashton Smith, Weird Tales, "The Treader of the Dust":
- The pipy arms, ending in bony claws were outthrust as if ankylosed in the posture of an eternal dreadful groping.
- 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber 1992, p. 133:
- it was a strange spot, this forest of dark petrifacts, this grove of ankylosed trees.
- August 1935, Clark Ashton Smith, Weird Tales, "The Treader of the Dust":
- Portuguese: anquilosado, ancilosado
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