ossify — 영어 사전

동사

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

   용법

   • 자동사·타동사 겸용

   반의어

   deossify

   예문

   […], 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.

   용법

   • 자동사·타동사 겸용
   • animate

   동의어

   harden

   예문

   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.

   용법

   • 자동사·타동사 겸용
   • inanimate

   예문

   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."

   더 많은 예문 (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.

   용법

   • 드문 표현

   예문

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

동사

1. become bony

   상위어

   change stateturn

   예문

   The tissue ossified

2. make rigid and set into a conventional pattern

   동의어

   rigidifypetrify

   상위어

   stiffen

   예문

   rigidify the training schedule

   ossified teaching methods

   더 많은 예문 (1)

   slogans petrify our thinking

3. cause to become hard and bony

   상위어

   changealtermodify

   예문

   The disease ossified the tissue