fossilise
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
convert to a fossil
The little animals fossilized and are now embedded in the limestone
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- fossil derivation
- fossilization derivation
Sense 2 verb
become mentally inflexible
Types & categories
- senesce hypernym
Related & opposite
- fossilization derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | fossil |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | fossilization |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | convert |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | lapidify |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | fossilization |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | senesce |