to fossilize
1
6.8
- verb
- /ˈfɑsɪlaɪz/
- Formal
- Work hard at maintaining an open mind so you don't get fossilized, so you don't get set in your ways.
- become fossilized
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Watch on YouTubeIf 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Over time, outdated beliefs can fossilize within a culture, making it resistant to change.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
2
8.4
Become fixed and hard to change, especially in ideas or rules
1
8.2
People stop using something because new things replace it
1
9.5
Become fixed or make something fixed and refuse to change
1
8.1
To make something old-fashioned or no longer useful
1
4.5
To make something no longer useful or fashionable by replacing it with something newer
1
9.5
To make something old and no longer useful
Antonyms
How Rigid
1
6.7
- Specialized
2
9.3
- Formal
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6.8
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2.6
18
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.