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Fossilize

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To convert into a fossil.

v. To make outmoded or inflexible with time; antiquate.

verb-intransitive. To become a fossil.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. to become a fossil

v. to become inflexible or outmoded

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. To convert into a fossil; to petrify.

v. To cause to become antiquated, rigid, or fixed, as by fossilization; to mummify; to deaden.

verb-intransitive. To become fossil.

verb-intransitive. To become antiquated, rigid, or fixed, beyond the influence of change or progress.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To reduce to a fossil condition; convert into a fossil: as, to fossilize bones or wood.

To render like a fossil; cause to become antiquated or out of harmony with present time and circumstances and the progress of ideas: as, age has a tendency to fossilize men's minds and ideas.

To become or be changed into a fossil.

To become antiquated or obsolete; become out of harmony with the present time and circumstances by falling behind the progress of ideas.

Also spelled fossilise.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. convert to a fossil

v. become mentally inflexible

Word Usage

"Otherwise, there is a danger that they will simply mark time as language learners, or even – to use a now fairly discredited term – fossilize."

Verb Form

fossilized fossilizes fossilizing

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

senesce maturate mature age get on

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

mummify deaden petrify fossilate fossilify

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

cartilaginous hollowed-out vestigial animals' antebellum