ossify — Dizionario inglese

Verbo

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

   Uso

   • transitivo o intransitivo

   Contrari

   deossify

   Esempi

   […], 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.

   Uso

   • transitivo o intransitivo
   • animate

   Sinonimi

   harden

   Esempi

   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.

   Uso

   • transitivo o intransitivo
   • inanimate

   Esempi

   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."

   Altri esempi (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.

   Uso

   • raro

   Esempi

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

Verbo

1. become bony

   Termini più generali

   change stateturn

   Esempi

   The tissue ossified

2. make rigid and set into a conventional pattern

   Sinonimi

   rigidifypetrify

   Termini più generali

   stiffen

   Esempi

   rigidify the training schedule

   ossified teaching methods

   Altri esempi (1)

   slogans petrify our thinking

3. cause to become hard and bony

   Termini più generali

   changealtermodify

   Esempi

   The disease ossified the tissue