Petrify: alternatives and connections

Having a thick edge or point, as an instrument; dull; not sharp.

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To make as dead; to impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation; to lessen the force or acuteness of; to blunt; as, to deaden the natural powers o…

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To convert into a fossil; to petrify; as, to fossilize bones or wood.

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To make stiff; to make less pliant or flexible; as, to stiffen cloth with starch.

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

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

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See Petrifaction.

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See Petrifaction.

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The quality or state of being rigid; want of pliability; the quality of resisting change of form; the amount of resistance with which a body opposes…

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The quality or state of being rigid; want of pliability; the quality of resisting change of form; the amount of resistance with which a body opposes…

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To convert into stone or stony material; to petrify.

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To form into bone; to change from a soft animal substance into bone, as by the deposition of lime salts.

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