V-ERG
(使)僵化;(使)陳舊
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.
例句
What they seem to want to do in fact is fossilize the particular environment in which people live and work...
他們似乎想要做的實際上就是讓人們生活和工作的環境固定不變。
Needs change while policies fossilize.
需要發生改變，但是政策僵化不變。