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Ossify
ossify
(ossifies, ossifying, ossified) If an idea, system, or organization ossifies or if something ossifies it, it becomes fixed and difficult to change. (FORMAL) It reckons that rationing would ossify the farm industry... British society tended to ossify and close ranks as the 1930s drew to their close. = fossilize VERB: V n, V c darkgreen]disapproval
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verb (-fied; -fying) Etymology: Latin oss-, os + English -ify Date: 1713 intransitive verb 1. to change into bone 2. to become hardened or conventional and opposed to change transitive verb 1. to change (as cartilage) into bone 2. to make rigidly conventional and opposed to change ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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v.tr. & intr. (-ies, -ied) 1 turn into bone; harden. 2 make or become rigid, callous, or unprogressive. Derivatives ossific adj. ossification n. Etymology: F ossifier f. L os ossis bone ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. книж. превращаться в кость; костенеть 2. книж. превращать в кость 3. черстветь, становиться бессердечным; ожесточаться 4. делать косным, консервативным, негибким to ossify the mind —- иссушать мозги ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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~ v 1 to become unwilling to consider new ideas or change your behaviour 2 technical to change into bone or to make something change into bone - ossification n (the rapid ossification of the Soviet hardline position) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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