Dictionary Entry
fossilize
fossilize is a 9-letter English word with 6 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To convert into a fossil; to petrify; as, to fossilize bones or wood. Face value is 21 in Scrabble and 22 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
9 letters · Scrabble 21 · Words With Friends 22 · 6 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To convert into a fossil; to petrify; as, to fossilize bones or wood.
- 2transitive verb
To cause to become antiquated, rigid, or fixed, as by fossilization; to mummify; to deaden.
- 3intransitive verb
To become fossil.
- 4intransitive verb
To become antiquated, rigid, or fixed, beyond the influence of change or progress.
- 5verb
become mentally inflexible
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- 6verb
convert to a fossil
"The little animals fossilized and are now embedded in the limestone"
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