to fossilize
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6.8
- verb
- /ˈfɑsɪlaɪz/
- Formal
:
fósilizar
- Work hard at maintaining an open mind so you don't get fossilized, so you don't get set in your ways.
- become fossilized
If you don't change, you fossilize and you die.
- If you don't change, you fossilize and you die.
- I mean that that is not a sort of a fossilizing community.
- And if you don't change enough, you fossilize and you die.
- I was going to eat this chocolate rose as a as a laugh until I opened it and realized just how fossilized it is.
Examples
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If you don't change, you fossilize and you die.
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Dave, it is certainly possible that my thinking could be limited, small-minded, and fossilized.
Blog text (28) -
"If there is no continued growth in your life, you will fossilize.
Blog text (11) -
And if you don't change enough, you fossilize and you die.
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Quotas and production controls fossilized the geography of tobacco types, as well as the geography of tobacco production.
Academic text (2011) -
Universality in this context must not be confused with religious intransigence in the sense of a stubborn orthodoxy or fossilized dogmatism.
Academic text (1996) -
If you refuse to adapt to new technology, your ideas will fossilize and become irrelevant.
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Over time, outdated beliefs can fossilize within a culture, making it resistant to change.
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Without continued learning and growth, you risk allowing your attitudes to fossilize.
Synonyms
1
9.5
Become fixed or make something fixed and refuse to change
1
8.4
Become fixed and hard to change, especially in ideas or rules
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8.2
People stop using something because new things replace it
To make something old and no longer useful
To make something no longer useful or fashionable by replacing it with something newer
To make something old-fashioned or no longer useful
Antonyms
How Rigid
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6.7
- Specialized
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9.3
- Formal
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6.8
27
2.6
19
6.8
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
A helpful way to remember the second meaning of fossilize is to think of something 'turning to stone'; the parts fossil and -ize mean 'dug up' and 'make', so if ideas, systems, or people fossilize they become hard, old, and unable to change.