"rigidify the training schedule" "ossified teaching methods" "slogans petrify our thinking"
cause to become hard and bony;
"The disease ossified the tissue"
例句
用作动词(v.)
It is easy for the mind to ossify.脑筋是易于僵化的。
All fixed,fast-frozen relations,with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions,are swept away,all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify.一切固定的僵化的关系以及与之相适应的素被尊崇的观念和见解都被消除了，一切新形成的关系等不到固定下来就陈旧了。
