- fossilized, fossilised, ossified - set in a rigidly conventional pattern of behavior, habits, or beliefs; "obsolete fossilized ways"; "an ossified bureaucratic system"
Antonym: flexible (indirect, via inflexible)
- fossilize, fossilise - convert to a fossil; "The little animals fossilized and are now embedded in the limestone"
--1 is one way to convert, change over
Sample sentences:Derived forms: noun fossilization1, noun fossil2
Something ----s
Something ----s something
- fossilize, fossilise - become mentally inflexible
--2 is one way to senesce, age, get on, mature, maturate
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s