Tra từ fossilize - Từ điển LongMan Dictionary

fos‧sil‧ize (also fossilise British English) /ˈfɒsəlaɪz, ˈfɒsɪlaɪz $ ˈfɑː-/ verb
1. [USUALLY PASSIVE]
if people, ideas, systems etc fossilize or are fossilized, they never change or develop, even when there are good reasons why they should change:
　 ▪ Most couples, however fossilized their relationship, have some interests in common.

2. [INTRANSITIVE AND TRANSITIVE]
to become or form a fossil by being preserved in rock:
　 ▪ fossilized dinosaur bones

—fossilization /ˌfɒsəlaɪˈzeɪʃən, ˌfɒsɪlaɪˈzeɪʃən $ ˌfɑːsələ-/ noun [UNCOUNTABLE]

verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The Soviets were unwilling to support the fossilized East German regime.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Fantastic electron microscope images of objects looking very suggestively like fossilized living forms again captured the imagination of the world.
▪ For one thing, flowers do not readily fossilize - and leaves alone can be misleading.
▪ Most couples, however fossilized their relationship, have some interest in common, if it's only cooking or travel or pets.
▪ Near Medicine Bow, Wyoming, I visited a rock shop made entirely of fossilized dinosaur bones.
▪ Not all sponges contain hard parts capable of being fossilized.
▪ The crumbled porcelain of a third lay embedded like fossilized prehistoric remains long entombed in silt and mud.
▪ The union movement in this country suffers from fossilized leadership trapped in a time warp.
▪ This makes the assumption, of course, that the plants have not changed their habits since they were fossilized.