【每日一词】 ossify -/ˈä-sə-ˌfī / vi. 骨化；硬化；僵化 vt. 使硬化；使骨化；使僵化

intransitive verb

1: to change into bone

The cartilages ossified with age.

2: to become hardened or conventional and opposed to change

so easy for the mind to ossify and generous ideals to end in stale platitudes

—John Buchan

transitive verb

1: to change (a material, such as cartilage) into bone

ossified tendons of muscle

2: to make rigidly conventional and opposed to change

ossified institutions

ossified ideologies

短语

ossify - transcend conventions: 古板的

Ossify oss: 骨骨化僵化硬化

ossify fibromas: 骨化性纤维瘤

ossify diathesis: 骨化素质

ossify the tissue: 使肌肉组织骨化

Examples of ossify in a Sentence

The cartilage will ossify, becoming bone.

a disease that ossifies the joints

Recent Examples on the Web

But the only time the new movie feels like its joints haven’t ossified is in a few scenes with L.A. oddballs like Nasim Pedrad’s ditzy real estate agent or Affion Crockett as a country club valet who’s not falling for Axel’s shtick.

—Ty Burr, Washington Post, 3 July 2024

In the past decade, factional divisions within the regime have narrowed; a hard-line consensus has ossified.

—Suzanne Maloney, Foreign Affairs, 28 Feb. 2023

At the same time, containment put unrelenting pressure on the Soviet Union and arguably led eventually to the internal collapse of the clumsy and ossified Soviet government — an outcome Kennan predicted.

—Richard Babcock, Chicago Tribune, 12 May 2024

That order, despite its authoritarianism and fierce policing of the public sphere, never fully ossified.

—Laura Secor, Foreign Affairs, 6 Dec. 2013