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  • verb Alternative spelling of fossilize.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb convert to a fossil
  • verb become mentally inflexible

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Examples

  • Anyway the dunes are younger and would appear to be able to tell us about climate changes that may have occured in the area - this includes looking for 'fossilise' hirax poo but these are rare.

    Snell-Pym » Linear Dunes 2008

  • Anyway the dunes are younger and would appear to be able to tell us about climate changes that may have occured in the area - this includes looking for 'fossilise' hirax poo but these are rare.

    Snell-Pym » 2008 » October 2008

  • As I have mentioned before – it took 20 million years to capture and fossilise the forests and micro-organisms of the Carboniferous Period - giving us our coal and oil.

    Leaders TV Debate – Law & Order Summary SHOCK! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010

  • • Giving certainty of funding when long-term investment is needed but does not fossilise funding at the expense of innovation;

    Archive 2008-06-01 2008

  • But intent doesn't fossilise, not even in bog bodies :- And as you say, the boundaries blur because human behaviour is rarely clear cut.

    Human sacrifice in Anglo-Saxon England: what rite might have been used? Carla 2008

  • • Giving certainty of funding when long-term investment is needed but does not fossilise funding at the expense of innovation;

    Arts and stuff 2008

  • This doesn't mean endlessly harking back to the past or attempting to fossilise traditions or keep up childish things....it involves celebrating each passing year, noting it, remembering things as part of something alive and valuable.

    Archive 2007-02-01 Joanna Bogle 2007

  • This doesn't mean endlessly harking back to the past or attempting to fossilise traditions or keep up childish things....it involves celebrating each passing year, noting it, remembering things as part of something alive and valuable.

    auntie joanna writes Joanna Bogle 2007

  • He had reached his zenith, I suppose: had begun to fossilise, as men do when they cease to grow.

    Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions 2007

  • There is a problem identifying reproductively isolated species from fossil taxa because the biological properties that make one population isolated from another do not fossilise.

    Laonastes/ Diatomys/ kha-nyou/ rat-squirrel - The Panda's Thumb 2006

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