What part of speech is fossilize?

Fossilize can be categorized as a verb.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. fossilize is a verb, present, 1st person singular of fossilize (infinitive).
  • 2. fossilize is a verb (infinitive).

Inflections

Verb

What does fossilize mean?

Definitions

Verb

fossilize - convert to a fossil; "The little animals fossilized and are now embedded in the limestone"
fossilize - become mentally inflexible

Examples of fossilize

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1. verb Like arthropods today, trilobites molted as they grew, shedding their old exoskeleton. These molts could fossilize, so one animal could leave several different sized fossils behind.
Sentence  
verb
Like arthropods today, trilobites molted as they grew, shedding their old exoskeleton. These molts could fossilize, so one animal could leave several different sized fossils behind.

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