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ossify 音标拼音: ['ɑsəf ,ɑɪ] vt. 使骨化,使硬化
vi. 骨化,硬化,变无情 使骨化,使硬化骨化,硬化,变无情 ossify v 1: become bony; " The tissue ossified" 2: make rigid and set into a conventional pattern; " rigidify the training schedule"; " ossified teaching methods"; " slogans petrify our thinking" [ synonym: { rigidify}, { ossify}, { petrify}] 3: cause to become hard and bony; " The disease ossified the tissue" Ossify \ Os" si* fy\, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Ossified}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Ossifying}.] [ L. os, ossis, bone - fy: cf. F. ossifier. See { Osseous}.] 1. ( Physiol.) To form into bone; to change from a soft animal substance into bone, as by the deposition of lime salts. [ 1913 Webster] 2. ( Fig.): To harden; as, to ossify the heart. -- Ruskin. [ 1913 Webster]
Ossify \ Os" si* fy\, v. i. ( Physiol.) To become bone; to change from a soft tissue to a hard bony tissue. [ 1913 Webster] 18 Moby Thesaurus words for " ossify": anneal, brutalize, calcify, callous, case harden, cornify, firm, fossilize, harden, indurate, inure, lapidify, lithify, petrify, steel, temper, toughen, vitrify
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