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fossilized
 
Adjective fossilized has 1 sense
  1. fossilized, fossilised, ossified - set in a rigidly conventional pattern of behavior, habits, or beliefs; "obsolete fossilized ways"; "an ossified bureaucratic system"
    Antonym: flexible (indirect, via inflexible)
Verb fossilize has 2 senses
  1. fossilize, fossilise - convert to a fossil; "The little animals fossilized and are now embedded in the limestone"
    --1 is one way to convert, change over
    Derived forms: noun fossilization1, noun fossil2
    Sample sentences:
    Something ----s
    Something ----s something
  2. fossilize, fossilise - become mentally inflexible
    --2 is one way to senesce, age, get on, mature, maturate
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s
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