ossify

PRONUNCIATION: (OS-uh-fy) ['ɔsifai]

MEANING:

verb tr., intr.:

1. To convert or change into bone.

2. To make or become rigid in thinking, attitudes, habits, etc.

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vi. 骨化；硬化；僵化

vt. 使硬化；使骨化；使僵化

[ 过去式 ossified   过去分词 ossified   现在分词 ossifying   ]

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin os (bone). Ultimately from the Indo-European root ost- (bone),which also gave us ossuary and ostracize. Earliest documenteduse: 1670.

USAGE:

“Mikhail Ugarov and Elena Gremina, playwrights who were husband and wife,were lamenting that Russian theater had grown ossified and distant from society’s problems.”

Sophia Kishkovsky; Moscow Theater Rebels, Husband and Wife, Are Dead;The New York Times; Jun 8, 2018.

playwright  ['pleirait]

n. 剧作家

lamenting  [lə'mentiŋ]

adj. 悲伤的；悲哀的；v. 悲痛；哀悼；惋惜（lament的ing形式）

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A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:

Bad weather always looks worse through a window. -Tom Lehrer,

singer-songwriter and mathematician (b. 9 Apr 1928)