| Meaning | convert to a fossil. |
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| Pattern | Something ----s; Something ----s something |
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| Example | "The little animals fossilized and are now embedded in the limestone" |
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| Synonym | fossilise |
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| Narrower | lapidify, petrify | change into stone |
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| Broader | convert | change the nature, purpose, or function of something |
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| Spanish | fosilizarse, fosilizar |
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| Catalan | fossilitzar-se |
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| Nouns | fossil | the remains (or an impression) of a plant or animal that existed in a past geological age and that has been excavated from the soil |
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| fossilization | the process of fossilizing a plant or animal that existed in some earlier age |
