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Verb
- (ambitransitive) To transform (or cause to transform) from a softer animal substance into bone; particularly the processes of growth in humans and animals.
- (ambitransitive, animate) To become (or cause to become) inflexible and rigid in habits or opinions.
- (ambitransitive, inanimate) To grow (or cause to grow) formulaic and permanent.
- (rare) To calcify.
Exempel
- [...], nor do all bones of the same skeleton ossify during the samе period of time.
- Before long, the entire organization ossifies.
- Possession of absolute knowledge would ossify the human spirit, quenching human creativity;
- 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.
- The cartilages become brittle, and in many instances are ossified; the ligaments are rendered harder, but are less capable of resisting extension.
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