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.
实用例句
1. It reckons that rationing would ossify the farm industry.
人们认为实行配给制会使农业失去活力。来自柯林斯例句
2. It is easy for the mind to ossify.
脑筋是易于僵化的.来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
3. British society tended to ossify and close ranks as the 1930s drew to their close.
英国社会在20世纪30年代末期趋于保守和自闭。来自柯林斯例句
4. This disease will make her tendons ossify and her body paralyzed into a statue.
