fossilize

动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈfɒs.ɪl.aɪz/|/ˈfɒsl̩aɪz/   

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To make into a fossil. transitive
    — Most of the booths had been scooped clean by the scalpel-sharp corner of the glacier in the crash. Three remained. Two of them were punctured and, inside, the once-human occupants had been fossilized into the walls by centuries upon centuries of patient ice.
  2. To become a fossil. intransitive
  3. To become inflexible or outmoded. broadly,figuratively,intransitive
    — I was getting fossilised myself, but of late my stock of ideas has been very much enlarged.
  4. To make antiquated, rigid, or fixed; to deaden. broadly,figuratively,transitive
    — Ten layers of birthdays on a woman's head / Are apt to fossilize her girlish mirth.

词形变化

fossilizes present,singular,third-person fossilizing participle,present fossilized participle,past fossilized past fossilise alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
fossilizable fossilizer
相关词
fossilization

词源

Etymology tree
English fossil
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.
Late Latin -izōder.
Middle French -iserbor.
Middle English -isen
English -ize
English fossilize
From fossil + -ize.
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