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Adjective: fossilised
Usage: Brit (=fossilized)
  1. Set in a rigidly conventional pattern of behaviour, habits, or beliefs
    - fossilized, ossified
Verb: fossilise  'fósu`lIz
Usage: Brit (=fossilize)
  1. Convert to a fossil
    "The little animals fossilised and are now embedded in the limestone"
    - fossilize
     
  2. Become mentally inflexible
    - fossilize

See also: fossilisation [Brit], inflexible

Type of: age, convert, get on, maturate, mature, senesce

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