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Grammar : Adj, verb
Spell : fos-uh-lahyz
Phonetic Transcription : ˈfɒs əˌlaɪz



Definition of fossilized

Origin :
  • 1794, from fossil + -ize. Figurative use from 1856. Related: Fossilized; fossilizing.
  • As in ossified : adj bony
  • As in outmoded : adj obsolete, old-fashioned
  • As in petrified : adj hardened
  • As in ossify : verb become hard from aging
  • As in petrify : verb make hard
  • As in shrivel : verb dehydrate, dry up
  • As in indurate : verb harden
  • As in harden : verb make or become solid
Example sentences :
  • We are still speaking of his fossilized herbaria, not his modern specimens.
  • Extract from : « Life: Its True Genesis » by R. W. Wright
  • Myrtle fossilized them as suddenly as if she had been a Gorgon instead of a beauty.
  • Extract from : « The Guardian Angel » by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Wise men use the word 'fossilized' when they speak of what has happened to it.
  • Extract from : « Our Little German Cousin » by Mary Hazelton Wade
  • It is strange indeed that these ethereal creatures should be fossilized at all.
  • Extract from : « Butterflies Worth Knowing » by Clarence M. Weed
  • Comparative number of living and fossilized species of plants.
  • Extract from : « Principles of Geology » by Charles Lyell
  • Had a bombshell been exploded among the fossilized professors it had been less disturbing.
  • Extract from : « Pioneers of Science » by Oliver Lodge
  • He walked steadily on, leaving behind him the dogma that time had fossilized and man had forgot.
  • Extract from : « Eden » by Edgar Saltus
  • What geologist would not wish to try his hammer on those rocks with their stony pages of fossilized history?
  • Extract from : « Curiosities of the Sky » by Garrett Serviss
  • Among the debris were several pieces of sandstone marked by black, fossilized plant-remains.
  • Extract from : « The Home of the Blizzard » by Douglas Mawson
  • Towards the end of the following summer, however, one of the tusks and an entire side of a fossilized animal were exposed.
  • Extract from : « The Desert World » by Arthur Mangin

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