fossilized
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Fossilize \Fos"sil*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Fossilized}; p.
pr. & vb. n. {Fossilizing}.] [Cf. F. fossiliser.]
1. To convert into a fossil; to petrify; as, to fossilize
bones or wood.
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2. To cause to become antiquated, rigid, or fixed, as by
fossilization; to mummify; to deaden.
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Ten layers of birthdays on a woman's head
Are apt to fossilize her girlish mirth. --Mrs.
Browning.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
71 Moby Thesaurus words for "fossilized":
Gothic, Victorian, anile, antediluvian, antiquated, antique,
archaic, backed, calcified, callous, calloused, case-hardened,
classical, crabbed, crusted, crusty, crystallized, debilitated,
decrepit, doddered, doddering, doddery, feeble, fossil, gerontal,
gerontic, granulated, grown old, hardened, hornified, incrusted,
indurate, indurated, infirm, lapidified, medieval, mid-Victorian,
mossbacked, moth-eaten, mummylike, of other times, old-world,
ossified, palsied, papery-skinned, petrified, ravaged with age,
reinforced, rickety, rigidified, run to seed, rusty, sclerotic,
senile, set, shaky, shriveled, solidified, steeled, stiffened,
strengthened, stricken in years, superannuated, timeworn,
tottering, tottery, toughened, vitrified, weak, withered,
wizened
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