English Dictionary

fossilize

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈfɒs.ɪl.aɪz/

動詞

他動詞 自動詞 広義 比喩的用法

(transitive) to make into a fossil / (intransitive) to become a fossil / (figuratively, by extension, intransitive) To become inflexible or outmoded.

日本語の意味

（他動詞）何かを化石にする、または化石として固定する / （自動詞）化石になる / （比喩的に、自動詞）硬直化して時代遅れになる、柔軟性を失う

Paleontologists carefully fossilize the fragile bone fragments to preserve them for future study.

古生物学者たちは、将来の研究のために壊れやすい骨片を注意深く化石にする。

意味（1）

(transitive) to make into a fossil

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.

意味（2）

(intransitive) to become a fossil

意味（3）

(figuratively, by extension, intransitive) To become inflexible or outmoded.

I was getting fossilised myself, but of late my stock of ideas has been very much enlarged.

意味（4）

(figuratively, by extension, transitive) To make antiquated, rigid, or fixed; to deaden.

Ten layers of birthdays on a woman's head / Are apt to fossilize her girlish mirth.

fossilizes （ present singular third-person ）

fossilizing （ participle present ）

fossilized （ participle past ）

fossilized （ past ）