Ossify
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[编辑] 解释
[编辑] GRE 红宝书
- v. 硬化, 骨化; ( 传统) 僵化
- ［英］ v. 硬化, 骨化 ( to change or develop into bone)
- ［类］ depreciation : value / ossification : flexibility ( 减价降低价值 / 硬化降低弹性) 反义词: transcend conventions ( 超越传统)
- ［同］ n. ossification
[编辑] Webster Collegiate
verb (-fied; -fying)
- Etymology: Latin oss-, os + English -ify
- Date: 1713
- intransitive verb
- 1. to change into bone
- 2. to become hardened or conventional and opposed to change
- transitive verb
- 1. to change (as cartilage) into bone
- 2. to make rigidly conventional and opposed to change
