ankylosed

English

Etymology

ankylose +‎ -ed

Verb

ankylosed

1. simple past and past participle of ankylose

Adjective

ankylosed (comparative more ankylosed, superlative most ankylosed)

1. 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.

Translations

of bones or joints: stiffened or inflexible

• Portuguese: anquilosado, ancilosado
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