Fossilizing

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Fossilize \Fos"sil*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Fossilized}; p.
     pr. & vb. n. {Fossilizing}.] [Cf. F. fossiliser.]
     1. To convert into a fossil; to petrify; as, to fossilize
        bones or wood.
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     2. To cause to become antiquated, rigid, or fixed, as by
        fossilization; to mummify; to deaden.
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              Ten layers of birthdays on a woman's head
              Are apt to fossilize her girlish mirth. --Mrs.
                                                    Browning.
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