ossify

1. V-T/V-I If an idea, system, or organization ossifies or if something ossifies it, it becomes fixed and difficult to change. (思想、系統(tǒng)或組織)僵化; 使...僵化[正式]

...conventions that threatened to ossify art. ...使藝術(shù)僵化的一些槼矩。

...after 50 years in charge, the party has ossified. ...50年執(zhí)政後，該黨派已變得僵化了。