fossilize

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To make into a fossil.

   “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.”

2. fiil To become a fossil.
3. fiil To become inflexible or outmoded.

   “I was getting fossilised myself, but of late my stock of ideas has been very much enlarged.”

4. fiil To make antiquated, rigid, or fixed; to deaden.

   “Ten layers of birthdays on a woman's head / Are apt to fossilize her girlish mirth.”