fossilize

verb

1. （使）变成化石，石化
   to become or make sth become a fossil
   1. fossilized bones
      成为化石的骨骼
2. （使人或物）僵化
   to become, or make sb/sth become, fixed and unable to change or develop

in BRIT, also use 英国英语亦用fossilise


1. V-ERG (使)成为化石;石化
   If the remains of an animal or plant fossilize or are fossilized, they become hard and form fossils, instead of decaying completely.
   1. The most important parts, the flowers, rarely fossilise...
      最重要的部分，即花朵，很少成为化石。
   2. The survival of the proteins depends on the way in which bones are fossilised.
      蛋白质是否存留取决于骨头被石化的方式。
   3. ...fossilized dinosaur bones.
      恐龙骨骼化石
2. V-ERG (使)僵化;(使)陈旧
   If you say that ideas, attitudes, or ways of behaving have fossilized or have been fossilized, you are criticizing the fact that they are fixed and unlikely to change, in spite of changing situations or circumstances.
   1. What they seem to want to do in fact is fossilize the particular environment in which people live and work...
      他们似乎想要做的实际上就是让人们生活和工作的环境固定不变。
   2. Needs change while policies fossilize.
      需要发生改变，但是政策僵化不变。

1. What they seem to want to do in fact is fossilize the particular environment in which people live and work
   他们似乎想要做的实际上就是让人们生活和工作的环境固定不变。
2. Needs change while policies fossilize.
   需要发生改变，但是政策僵化不变。
3. They fossilize an industrial structure that needs to change.
   这些措施会令原本需要变革的产业结构陷入僵化。

verb

1. become mentally inflexible

   Synonym:    fossilise

2. convert to a fossil
   1. The little animals fossilized and are now embedded in the limestone

   Synonym:    fossilise