About The Word Fossilize
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Fossilize
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What's The Definition Of Fossilize?
[v] become mentally inflexible
[v] convert to a fossil; "The little animals fossilized and are now embedded in the limestone" Synonyms | Synonyms for Fossilize: fossilise Related Terms | Find terms related to Fossilize: age | anneal | antiquate | become extinct | become obsolete | calcify | callous | case harden | cornify | date | fade | firm | fust | grow old | harden | indurate | lapidify | lithify | lose currency | molder | obsolesce | ossify | outdate | perish | petrify | rust | steel | superannuate | temper | toughen | vitrify See Also | age | change over | convert | get on | lapidify | maturate | mature | petrify Fossilize In Webster's Dictionary \Fos"sil*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Fossilized}; p.
pr. & vb. n. {Fossilizing}.] [Cf. F. fossiliser.]
1. To convert into a fossil; to petrify; as, to fossilize
bones or wood.
2. To cause to become antiquated, rigid, or fixed, as by
fossilization; to mummify; to deaden.
Ten layers of birthdays on a woman's head Are apt to
fossilize her girlish mirth. --Mrs.
Browning.
\Fos"sil*ize\, v. i. 1. To become fossil. 2. To become antiquated, rigid, or fixed, beyond the influence of change or progress. |
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