agatize
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agatize (third-person singular simple present agatizes, present participle agatizing, simple past and past participle agatized)
- (transitive) To convert a living thing into the form of an agate; to fossilize.
- 1887 October, Popular Science, volume 31, number 46, page 859:
- polished specimens of jasperized and agatized woods from Arizona