fossilize
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ˈfɒs.ɪl.aɪz/, /ˈfɒsl̩aɪz/
fossilize (fossilizes, present participle fossilizing; past and past participle fossilized)
- (transitive) to make into a fossil
- (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.
- Ten layers of birthdays on a woman's head / Are apt to fossilize her girlish mirth.
- (To become a fossil) fossilate (dated), fossilify (dated)
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