transcription, транскрипция: [ ɒsɪfaɪ ]
( ossifies, ossifying, ossified)
If an idea, system, or organization ossifies or if something ossifies it, it becomes fixed and difficult to change. ( FORMAL )
It reckons that rationing would ossify the farm industry...
British society tended to ossify and close ranks as the 1930s drew to their close.
= fossilize
VERB : V n , V [ disapproval ]