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FOSSILISE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Become mentally inflexible

Synonyms:

fossilise; fossilize

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "fossilise" is one way to...):

age; get on; maturate; mature; senesce (grow old or older)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

fossilisation (becoming inflexible or out of date)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Convert to a fossil

Example:

The little animals fossilized and are now embedded in the limestone

Synonyms:

fossilise; fossilize

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "fossilise" is one way to...):

convert (change the nature, purpose, or function of something)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "fossilise"):

lapidify; petrify (change into stone)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Something ----s something

Derivation:

fossilisation (the process of fossilizing a plant or animal that existed in some earlier age; the process of being turned to stone)

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