ossify是什么意思？

ossify

英[ˈɒsɪfaɪ] 美[ˈɑsɪfaɪ]

• vt.& vi. 骨化，硬化，使僵化；

第三人称单数：ossifies;

过去式：ossified;

过去分词：ossified;

现在分词：ossifying;

名词：ossification;

例句

• Babies’ skeletons ossify. 婴儿的骨骼在硬化。
• This disease will make her tendons ossify and her body paralyzed into a statue. 她肩膀两侧长出额外骨头,病情会令她的肌腱继续骨化,身体逐步瘫痪,最终变成一尊雕像.
• It is easy for the mind to ossify. 脑筋是易于僵化的.
• It reckons that rationing would ossify the farm industry. 人们认为实行配给制会使农业失去活力。
• British society tended to ossify and close ranks as the 1930s drew to their close. 英国社会在20世纪30年代末期趋于保守和自闭。
• It reckons that rationing would ossify the farm industry... 人们认为实行配给制会使农业失去活力。

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• V-ERG
  （使）僵化；（使）一成不变；（使）墨守成规
  If an idea, system, or organization ossifies or if something ossifies it, it becomes fixed and difficult to change.
  例句
  It reckons that rationing would ossify the farm industry... 人们认为实行配给制会使农业失去活力。 British society tended to ossify and close ranks as the 1930s drew to their close. 英国社会在20世纪30年代末期趋于保守和自闭。

英汉词典释义

• vt. & vi.
  骨化,硬化;使僵化
  Babies’ skeletons ossify. 婴儿的骨骼在硬化。 His thinking has ossified as he’s grown older;he won’t accept new ideas. 随着年岁的增长,他的思想僵化了,他不接受新观点。

英英词典释义

• Verb
  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"