Antonyms for fossilized
| Grammar : Adj, verb |
| Spell : fos-uh-lahyz |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈfɒs əˌlaɪz |
- be intolerant
- bloom
- calm
- comfort
- continue
- current
- develop
- dilute
- discourage
- dishearten
- disjoin
- dissolve
- dissuade
- divide
- enlarge
- expand
- flex
- freeze
- fresh
- grow
- hurt
- indulge
- let go
- liquefy
- loosen
- melt
- modern
- moisten
- new
- new-fangled
- open
- please
- popular
- present
- separate
- soften
- soothe
- spoil
- thin
- unfix
- unsettle
- unwrinkle
- up-to-date
- upset
- weaken
- wet
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
- 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
Synonyms for fossilized
- acclimate
- acclimatize
- amalgamate
- anachronistic
- anneal
- antediluvian
- antiquated
- antique
- archaic
- bake
- behind the times
- bent
- brace
- burn
- buttress
- bygone
- cake
- calcified
- calcify
- callous
- caseharden
- cement
- clarify
- close
- clot
- coagulate
- compact
- concrete
- congeal
- consolidate
- contract
- crystallize
- curdle
- dated
- dead
- démodé
- densify
- desiccate
- dinosaur
- disused
- dry
- dwindle
- extinct
- firm
- fix
- fortify
- fossilize
- fossilized
- freeze
- frozen
- gird
- hard
- harden
- hardened
- has-been
- horse and buggy
- indurate
- jell
- lapidify
- mineralize
- moldy
- moth-eaten
- mummify
- mummy
- musty
- nerve
- obsolescent
- obsolete
- old-hat
- old-time
- olden
- ossified
- ossify
- out
- out-of-date
- out-of-style
- outworn
- parch
- passé
- petrified
- petrify
- precipitate
- press
- reinforce
- rigid
- scorch
- sear
- season
- set
- settle
- shrink
- solidified
- solidify
- stale
- starch
- steel
- stiffen
- strengthen
- superannuated
- superseded
- temper
- thicken
- tired
- toughen
- turn to bone
- turn to stone
- unfashionable
- unstylish
- unusable
- vintage
- vitrify
- welter
- wilt
- wither
- wizen
- wrinkle
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