ossify — Englisches Wörterbuch

Verb

1. To transform (or cause to transform) from a softer animal substance into bone; particularly the processes of growth in humans and animals.

   Gebrauch

   • transitiv oder intransitiv

   Antonyme

   deossify

   Beispiele

   […], nor do all bones of the same skeleton ossify during the samе period of time.

2. To become (or cause to become) inflexible and rigid in habits or opinions.

   Gebrauch

   • transitiv oder intransitiv
   • animate

   Synonyme

   harden

   Beispiele

   Before long, the entire organization ossifies.

   Possession of absolute knowledge would ossify the human spirit, quenching human creativity;

3. To grow (or cause to grow) formulaic and permanent.

   Gebrauch

   • transitiv oder intransitiv
   • inanimate

   Beispiele

   This accidental repartition gets repeated, develops advantages of its own, and gradually ossifies into a systematic division of labour.

   Now, in turn, we apply a revolutionary critique that […] ossifies into a rhetoric to become "the monstrous Latin of a monstrous church."

   Weitere Beispiele (1)

   [T]he charge threatens to ossify into conventional wisdom before the movie's audience can get to theaters to see how misguided it is.

4. To calcify.

   Gebrauch

   • selten

   Beispiele

   The cartilages become brittle, and in many instances are ossified; the ligaments are rendered harder, but are less capable of resisting extension.

Verb

1. become bony

   Oberbegriffe

   change stateturn

   Beispiele

   The tissue ossified

2. make rigid and set into a conventional pattern

   Synonyme

   rigidifypetrify

   Oberbegriffe

   stiffen

   Beispiele

   rigidify the training schedule

   ossified teaching methods

   Weitere Beispiele (1)

   slogans petrify our thinking

3. cause to become hard and bony

   Oberbegriffe

   changealtermodify

   Beispiele

   The disease ossified the tissue