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Found 2 items, similar to fossilized.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: fossilized
fossilized
adj : set in a rigidly conventional pattern of behavior, habits,
or beliefs;
“obsolete fossilized ways”;
“an ossified
bureaucratic system” [syn:
fossilised,
ossified]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Fossilized
Fossilize
\Fos"sil*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Fossilized; p.
pr. & vb. n.
Fossilizing.] [Cf. F. fossiliser.]
1. To convert into a fossil; to petrify; as, to fossilize
bones or wood.
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2. To cause to become antiquated, rigid, or fixed, as by
fossilization; to mummify; to deaden.
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Ten layers of birthdays on a woman's head
Are apt to fossilize her girlish mirth. --Mrs.
Browning.
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Fossilized
\Fos"sil*ized\, a.
Converted into a fossil; antiquated; firmly fixed in views or
opinions.
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A fossilized sample of confused provincialism. --Earle.
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