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"sense": "to make into fossil",
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"sense": "to make into fossil",
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"roman": "kaseki saseru",
"sense": "to make into fossil",
"word": "化石させる"
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"sense": "to make into fossil",
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"sense": "to make into fossil",
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"(figurative, by extension, intransitive) To become inflexible or outmoded."
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"ref": "2013, Days N' Daze (lyrics and music), “Blue Jays”, in Rogue Taxidermy",
"text": "I'll meet you again\nBlanketed in soil\nFossilized in photographs",
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"To make antiquated, rigid, or fixed; to deaden."
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"(transitive) to make into a fossil"
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"sense": "To become a fossil",
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{
"sense": "To become a fossil",
"tags": [
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to make into fossil",
"word": "fossilisoida"
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"sense": "to make into fossil",
"word": "fossiliser"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to make into fossil",
"word": "fossilisieren"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "l'ab'en",
"sense": "to make into fossil",
"word": "לְאַבֵּן"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to make into fossil",
"word": "fossilizzare"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "kaseki saseru",
"sense": "to make into fossil",
"word": "化石させる"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "to make into fossil",
"word": "fossilizar"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to make into fossil",
"word": "fosiliza"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to make into fossil",
"word": "fosilizar"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to make into fossil",
"word": "fossilisera"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to make into fossil",
"word": "fosilleştirmek"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to become a fossil",
"word": "fossilisoitua"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to become a fossil",
"word": "fossilisieren"
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{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "lhit'ab'en",
"sense": "to become a fossil",
"word": "לְהִתְאַבֵּן"
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{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to become a fossil",
"word": "megkövesedik"
},
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to become a fossil",
"word": "fossilizzare"
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"code": "ja",
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"roman": "kaseki suru",
"sense": "to become a fossil",
"word": "化石する"
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"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "to become a fossil",
"word": "se fossilizar"
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"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to become a fossil",
"tags": [
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"word": "kostnieć"
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"code": "pl",
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"sense": "to become a fossil",
"tags": [
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"word": "skostnieć"
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{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to become a fossil",
"word": "se fosiliza"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to become a fossil",
"word": "fosilizar"
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{
"code": "tr",
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"sense": "to become a fossil",
"word": "fosilleşmek"
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