Associations to the word «Fossilise»

Wiktionary

FOSSILISE, verb. Alternative spelling of fossilize

Dictionary definition

FOSSILISE, verb. Convert to a fossil; "The little animals fossilized and are now embedded in the limestone".
FOSSILISE, verb. Become mentally inflexible.

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky