fossilize
fossilize is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 3 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 24 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.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.
- 2.To become fossil.
- 3.To become antiquated, rigid, or fixed, beyond the influence of change or progress.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- azoic
- brute
- dust
- geognosy
- geology
- geoscopy
- inanimate
- inorganic
- inorganized
- kingdom
- lithoidal
- lithology
- matter
- metallography
- metallurgy
- mineral
- mineralize
- mineralogy
- oryctography
- oryctology
- the
- turn
- unorganized
- world
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
Related questions
Reverse-dictionary questions
Definition-first questions whose answer is fossilize.
- What is 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 called?
- What is to become antiquated, rigid, or fixed, beyond the influence of change or progress called?
Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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