fossilize

About 0.02 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To make into a fossil.
2. verb To become a fossil.
3. verb To become inflexible or outmoded.
4. verb To make antiquated, rigid, or fixed; to deaden.

Similar words

fossilise fossilify agatize coalify ossify vestigialize solidify crystalize formatize statue

Often followed by

the and into well in at it them or

Word family

fossilization fossilizations fossilized fossilizes fossilizing