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  1. fossilizes: Merriam-Webster
  2. fossilizes: Collins English Dictionary
  3. fossilizes: Vocabulary.com
  4. fossilizes: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. fossilizes: Wiktionary
  6. fossilizes: Dictionary.com
  7. fossilizes: TheFreeDictionary.com

(Note: See fossilize as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (fossilize)

verb:  (transitive) to make into a fossil
verb:  (intransitive) to become a fossil
verb:  (figurative, by extension, intransitive) To become inflexible or outmoded.
verb:  (figurative, by extension, transitive) To make antiquated, rigid, or fixed; to deaden.
▸ Also see fossilize


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