Overview of verb fossilize

The verb fossilize has 2 senses

• fossilize, fossilise -- (convert to a fossil; "The little animals fossilized and are now embedded in the limestone")


• fossilize, fossilise -- (become mentally inflexible)

Overview of adj fossilized

The adj fossilized has 1 sense

• fossilized, fossilised, ossified -- (set in a rigidly conventional pattern of behavior, habits, or beliefs; "obsolete fossilized ways"; "an ossified bureaucratic system")