1713, "to turn into bone," a back-formation from ossification, or else modeled on French ossifier (18c.) and formed from Latin os (genitive ossis) "bone" (see osseous) + -fy. Figurative sense is from 1858. Related: Ossified; ossifying.
雙語例句
1. It reckons that rationing would ossify the farm industry.
人們認為實行配給制會使農業失去活力。
來自柯林斯例句
2. It is easy for the mind to ossify.
腦筋是易于僵化的.
來自《現代英漢綜合大詞典》
3. British society tended to ossify and close ranks as the 1930s drew to their close.
英國社會在20世紀30年代末期趨于保守和自閉。
來自柯林斯例句
4. This disease will make her tendons ossify and her body paralyzed into a statue.