fossilize

Definition

To make into a fossil.

Etymology

From fossil + -ize.

Example Sentences

• "Most of the booths had been scooped clean by the scalpel-sharp corner of the glacier in the crash. Three remained. Two of them were punctured and, inside, the once-human occupants had been fossilized into the walls by centuries upon centuries of patient ice."
• "I was getting fossilised myself, but of late my stock of ideas has been very much enlarged."
• "Ten layers of birthdays on a woman's head / Are apt to fossilize her girlish mirth."

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