ossify
英['?s?fa?]
美['ɑs?fa?]
- vi. 骨化；硬化；僵化
- vt. 使硬化；使骨化；使僵化
英英釋意
- 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"
