Fossilize
['fɒs(ə)laɪz;'fɒsɪlaɪz]
Definition
(verb.) become mentally inflexible.
(verb.) convert to a fossil; 'The little animals fossilized and are now embedded in the limestone'.
Editor: Lou--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To convert into a fossil; to petrify; as, to fossilize bones or wood.
(v. t.) To cause to become antiquated, rigid, or fixed, as by fossilization; to mummify; to deaden.
(v. i.) To become fossil.
(v. i.) To become antiquated, rigid, or fixed, beyond the influence of change or progress.
Inputed by Jarvis
Examples
- Many of these plants took the form of huge-stemmed trees, of which great multitudes of trunks survive fossilized to this day. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It is quite understandable that such a creature would very rarely die in water in such circumstances as to leave bones to become fossilized. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- These trees are rather mineralized than fossilized. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
Typed by Kevin