Fossilize vs Fossilizable - What's the difference?
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to make into a fossil
* 1989 , Grant Naylor, Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers
to become a fossil
(figurative, by extension, intransitive) to become inflexible or outmoded
(figurative, by extension, transitive) To make antiquated, rigid, or fixed; to deaden.
* Elizabeth Browning
Fossilizable is a related term of fossilize.
As a verb fossilize
is to make into a fossil.As an adjective fossilizable is
able to be converted into a fossil.fossilize
English
Alternative forms
* fossiliseVerb
(fossiliz)- 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.
- Ten layers of birthdays on a woman's head / Are apt to fossilize her girlish mirth.