fossilize

1. V-T/V-I If the remains of an animal or plant fossilize or are fossilized, they become hard and form fossils, instead of decaying completely. 變成化石

The tissue and cartilage of a nose are too soft to fossilize. 鼻部的組織和軟骨結搆太軟，無法形成化石。

The survival of the proteins depends on the way in which bones are fossilized. 蛋白物的生存取決於骨骼形成化石的方式。

...fossilized dinosaur bones. ...成爲化石的恐龍骨骼。

2. V-T/V-I 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. 使陳腐[表不滿]

They seem to want to fossilize the environment in which people live and work. 他們看樣子想把人們工作和生活環境陳腐化。

Needs change while policies fossilize. 政策僵化，需求就産生變化。

3. fossilizedADJ

...these fossilized organizations. ...這些陳腐的機搆。