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Ossify refers to becoming inflexible, conventional, and resistant to change: For these writers, the ossified ideologies of the world, imbedded in the communal imagination, block vision, and as artists they respond not by criticism from without but by confrontation from within.
Ossify definition: to convert into or cause to harden like bone.. See examples of OSSIFY used in a sentence.
If habits or ideas ossify, or if something ossifies them, they become fixed and unable to change: Years of easy success had ossified the company's thinking and it never faced up to the challenge of the new technology .
If habits or ideas ossify, or if something ossifies them, they become fixed and unable to change: Years of easy success had ossified the company's thinking and it never faced up to the challenge of the new technology .
2 days ago · transitive verb. 1. to convert into or cause to harden like bone. intransitive verb. 2. to become bone or harden like bone. 3. to become rigid or inflexible in habits, attitudes, opinions, etc. a young man who began to ossify right after college.
1. to convert into or cause to harden like bone. v.i. 2. to become bone or harden like bone. 3. to become rigid or inflexible in habits, opinions, etc. [1705–15; < Latin oss-, s. of os bone + -ify]
ossify. [intransitive, transitive, usually passive] ossify (something) (formal, disapproving) to become or make something fixed and unable to change. The Oxford Learner’s Thesaurus explains the difference between groups of similar words.
verb. ossified, ossifies, ossifying. To change or develop into bone. Webster's New World. Similar definitions. To settle or fix rigidly in a practice, custom, attitude, etc. Webster's New World. To become set in a rigidly conventional pattern. American Heritage.
Jun 2, 2024 · ossify (third-person singular simple present ossifies, present participle ossifying, simple past and past participle ossified) ( transitive, intransitive) To transform (or cause to transform) from a softer animal substance into bone; particularly the processes of growth in humans and animals .
Definition of ossify verb in Oxford Advanced American Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
