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transitive (chiefly in passive). = fossilize, v. 2a 3b (literal and figurative).
transitive. To convert (an organism, or a part, trace, etc., of one) into a fossil. Usually in passive.
transitive and intransitive = fossilize, v.
transitive. To subject to permineralization; to make permineralized.