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FOSSILIZE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they fossilize ... he / she / it fossilizes
Past simple: fossilized
-ing form: fossilizing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Synonyms:
fossilise; fossilize
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "fossilize" is one way to...):
age; get on; maturate; mature; senesce (grow old or older)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Sense 2
Meaning:
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 "fossilize" is one way to...):
convert (change the nature, purpose, or function of something)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "fossilize"):
lapidify; petrify (change into stone)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Something ----s something
Derivation:
fossil (the remains (or an impression) of a plant or animal that existed in a past geological age and that has been excavated from the soil)
fossilization (the process of fossilizing a plant or animal that existed in some earlier age; the process of being turned to stone)