Fossilize
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈfɒs.ɪl.aɪz/ · Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Fossilize is a verb meaning (transitive) To make into a fossil.
Meaning
(transitive) To make into a fossil.
More Meanings
- (intransitive) To become a fossil.
- (figurative, by extension, intransitive) To become inflexible or outmoded.
- (figurative, by extension, transitive) To make antiquated, rigid, or fixed; to deaden.
Example Sentences
I'll meet you again Blanketed in soil Fossilized in photographs
Ten layers of birthdays on a woman's head / Are apt to fossilize her girlish mirth.
I was getting fossilised myself, but of late my stock of ideas has been very much enlarged.
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.
Word Forms
- fossilizes
- fossilizing
- fossilized
- fossilise
Synonyms for fossilize
Depending on context, synonyms include fossilate, fossilify.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include fossilise, fossilify, agatize, coalify, ossify, vestigialize.
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