Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to fossilize
Participle: fossilized
Gerund: fossilizing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | fossilize |
| you | fossilize |
| he;she;it | fossilizes |
| we | fossilize |
| you | fossilize |
| they | fossilize |
Perfect
| I | have fossilized |
| you | have fossilized |
| he;she;it | has fossilized |
| we | have fossilized |
| you | have fossilized |
| they | have fossilized |
Past
| I | fossilized |
| you | fossilized |
| he;she;it | fossilized |
| we | fossilized |
| you | fossilized |
| they | fossilized |
Pluperfect
| I | had fossilized |
| you | had fossilized |
| he;she;it | had fossilized |
| we | had fossilized |
| you | had fossilized |
| they | had fossilized |
Future
| I | will fossilize |
| you | will fossilize |
| he;she;it | will fossilize |
| we | will fossilize |
| you | will fossilize |
| they | will fossilize |
Future Perfect
| I | will have fossilized |
| you | will have fossilized |
| he;she;it | will have fossilized |
| we | will have fossilized |
| you | will have fossilized |
| they | will have fossilized |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | fossilize |
| you | fossilize |
| he;she;it | fossilize |
| we | fossilize |
| you | fossilize |
| they | fossilize |
Perfect
| I | have fossilized |
| you | have fossilized |
| he;she;it | have fossilized |
| we | have fossilized |
| you | have fossilized |
| they | have fossilized |
Imperfect
| I | fossilized |
| you | fossilized |
| he;she;it | fossilized |
| we | fossilized |
| you | fossilized |
| they | fossilized |
Pluperfect
| I | had fossilized |
| you | had fossilized |
| he;she;it | had fossilized |
| we | had fossilized |
| you | had fossilized |
| they | had fossilized |
Conditional
Present
| I | would fossilize |
| you | would fossilize |
| he;she;it | would fossilize |
| we | would fossilize |
| you | would fossilize |
| they | would fossilize |
Perfect
| I | would have fossilized |
| you | would have fossilized |
| he;she;it | would have fossilized |
| we | would have fossilized |
| you | would have fossilized |
| they | would have fossilized |
Imperative
| you | fossilize |
| we | Let's fossilize |
| you | fossilize |
Verbs conjugated like 'fossilize'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'fossilize'
fossilise,
fossilate,
fossilify,
hostilize,
bovrilize,
cosmicize,
dorsalize,
facilize,
fertilize,
fibrilize,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. English fossil
3. Proto-Indo-European *-id-
4. Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
5. Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
6. Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
7. Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.
8. Late Latin -izōder.
9. Middle French -iserbor.
10. Middle English -isen
11. English -ize
12. English fossilize
13. From fossil + -ize.
Verbs referencing "fossilize"
Finnish with old forms
fossilisoitua.
Sample Sentences
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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. [1989, Grant Naylor, Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers:]
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I was getting fossilised myself, but of late my stock of ideas has been very much enlarged. [1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:]
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Ten layers of birthdays on a woman's head / Are apt to fossilize her girlish mirth. [1856, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Eighth Book”, in Aurora Leigh, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1857, →OCLC:]
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I'll meet you again
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Blanketed in soil
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Fossilized in photographs [2013, Days N' Daze, “Blue Jays”, in Rogue Taxidermy:]