Vaihtoehtoiset kirjoitusmuodot
Ääntäminen
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- IPA: /ˈfɒs.ɪl.aɪz/
- IPA: /ˈfɒsl̩aɪz/
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Määritelmät
Verbi
- (transitive) to make into a fossil
- (intransitive) to become a fossil
- (figurative, by extension, intransitive) To become inflexible or outmoded.
- (figurative, by extension, transitive) To make antiquated, rigid, or fixed; to deaden.
Esimerkit
- Most of the booths had been scooped clean by the scalpel-sharp corner of the glacier in the crash. Three remained. Two of them were punctured and, inside, the once-human occupants had been fossilized into the walls by centuries upon centuries of patient ice.
- Ten layers of birthdays on a woman's head / Are apt to fossilize her girlish mirth.
Taivutusmuodot