The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mineralize \Min"er*al*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mineralized; p. pr. & vb. n. Mineralizing.] [Cf. F. min['e]raliser.]
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To transform into a mineral.
In these caverns the bones are not mineralized.
--Buckland. To impregnate with a mineral; as, mineralized water.
To charge or impregnate with ore.
Mineralize \Min"er*al*ize\, v. i. To go on an excursion for observing and collecting minerals; to mineralogize.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 To convert to a mineral; to petrify. 2 To impregnate with minerals. 3 To mineralogize; to collect and study minerals.
Usage examples of "mineralize".
The copper-rich, heavily mineralized surface was permeable enough to allow water to penetrate, but not to accumulate.
Some of the substances enclosed in this vast herbal left their impression on the other more rapidly mineralized products, which pressed them as an hydraulic press of incalculable power would have done.
This holds good equally for everything which in the body of living nature takes the form of mineralized deposits or coverings.
Whole trees, uprooted, their upraised branches stripped of leaves and bark and mineralized to a dead white, swirled like drowning men in the violent whirlpools.
This mineralizes and fertilizes the flood plains below, as it slowly and inexorably finds its way to the sea.