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Petrifaction

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. A process of fossilization in which dissolved minerals replace organic matter.

n. The state of being stunned or paralyzed with fear.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. the condition of being petrified

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The process of petrifying, or changing into stone; conversion of any organic matter (animal or vegetable) into stone, or a substance of stony hardness.

n. The state or condition of being petrified.

n. That which is petrified; popularly, a body incrusted with stony matter; an incrustation.

n. Fig.: Hardness; callousness; obduracy.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. Conversion into stone, specifically of organic substances or parts of such: fossilization; replacement of organic matter by some mineral substance, in which process more or less of the form and structure of the organized body is preserved.

n. An organic substance converted into stone; a fossil.

n. Figuratively, a rigid or stunned condition resulting from fear, astonishment, etc.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. the process of turning some plant material into stone by infiltration with water carrying mineral particles without changing the original shape

n. a rock created by petrifaction; an organic object infiltrated with mineral matter and preserved in its original form

Word Usage

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Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

fossilisation fossilization stone rock

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

incrustation callousness obduracy

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