ossified
o suh fahyd
- v become bony
The tissue ossified - v make rigid and set into a conventional pattern
ossified teaching methods - v cause to become hard and bony
The disease ossified the tissue - s set in a rigidly conventional pattern of behavior, habits, or beliefs
an ossified bureaucratic system
- Compared with the flamboyantly inflexible Fidel, the beardless and bespectacled Ral is an earthier, more pragmatic figure, who has nudged his country's ossified economy toward .
- Beset by economic and social stagnation that makes it among the most ossified slices of Old Europe, it is stuck with a stubbornly low birth-rate that means Italians are not even .
- But the change of scenery breathes no new life into these once-exciting characters that have ossified into little more than corporate icons.