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ossify

C2 verb
us /ˈɑ.sə.faɪ/

ossify /ˈɒs.ɪ.faɪ/ nghĩa là hóa xương, cốt hóa

Các nghĩa

  1. hóa xương, cốt hóa

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

    ambitransitive

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

  2. trở nên cứng nhắc, bảo thủ

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

    ambitransitive · animate

    Before long, the entire organization ossifies.

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

  3. trở nên công thức hóa, cố định

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

    ambitransitive · inanimate

    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."

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

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