What does fossilize mean?
Fossilize means (transitive) To make into a fossil..
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/ˈfɒs.ɪl.aɪz/ · verb
(transitive) To make into a fossil..
Most of the booths had been scooped clean by the scalpel-sharp corner of the glacier in the crash. Three remained. Two of them were punctured and, inside, the once-human occupants had been fossilized into the walls by centuries upon centuries of patient ice.
I was getting fossilised myself, but of late my stock of ideas has been very much enlarged.
Ten layers of birthdays on a woman's head / Are apt to fossilize her girlish mirth.
I'll meet you again Blanketed in soil Fossilized in photographs
Use fossilize when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Fossilize means (transitive) To make into a fossil..
Common synonyms include fossilate, fossilify.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Most of the booths had been scooped clean by the scalpel-sharp corner of the glacier in the crash. Three remained. Two of them were punctured and, inside, the once-human occupants had been fossilized into the walls by centuries upon centuries of patient ice.
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