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ossified

/os-uh-fahyd/US // ˈɒs əˌfaɪd //UK // (ˈɒsɪˌfaɪd) //

骨化的,骨化,硬化的,骨质化

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : hardened like or into bone.
    • : Slang. drunk.

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Examples

  • They create ossified institutions, paralyzed by groupthink and incapable of self-reflection.

  • Who would you think more likely to reform an ossified economic system?

  • Although it makes no sense, this simplistic line has been repeated ad nauseam until it has ossified into accepted fact.

  • She only wrote two novels, but they establish her as the chronicler of an ossified generation unable to move forward in life.

  • The bones are ossified in a great part of their extent, and the rudiments of the second set of teeth are visible, under the first.

  • It is again to development that we must turn to discover the true relationship of the cartilaginous to the ossified skull.

  • So that it might have been present in a fossil animal without being ossified and preserved.

  • The tail is elongated like that of Dimorphodon, and bordered in the same way by ossified ligaments.

  • The mentomecklians are ossified, but separated by cartilage medially.