FOSSILIZE

v.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

To convert into a fossil; to petrify; as, to fossilize bones or wood.

2.
v.

To cause to become antiquated, rigid, or fixed, as by fossilization; to mummify; to deaden. Ten layers of birthdays on a woman's head Are apt to fossilize her girlish mirth. Mrs. Browning.

3.
v.

To become fossil.

4.
v.

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

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