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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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