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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. 2. 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Fossilized \Fos"sil*ized\, a. Converted into a fossil; antiquated; firmly fixed in views or opinions. A fossilized sample of confused provincialism. --Earle. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: fossilized adj : set in a rigidly conventional pattern of behavior, habits, or beliefs; "obsolete fossilized ways"; "an ossified bureaucratic system" [syn: {ossified}]
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