ossify
📖 Definitions
verb tr., intr.
1. To convert or change into bone.
2. To make or become rigid in thinking, attitudes, habits, etc.
💬 Usage Examples
“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.