Petrify

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1. Verb

To convert, as any animal or vegetable matter, into stone or stony substance.

2. Verb

To make callous or obdurate; to stupefy; to paralyze; to transform; as by petrifaction; as, to petrify the heart. Young.

3. Verb

To become stone, or of a stony hardness, as organic matter by calcareous deposits.

4. Verb

Fig.: To become stony, callous, or obdurate.
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