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Meaning of PETRIFY in English

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

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    Meaning of PETRIFY in English

    • To convert, as any animal or vegetable matter, into stone or stony substance.
    • To make callous or obdurate; to stupefy; to paralyze; to transform; as by petrifaction; as, to petrify the heart. Young.
    • To become stone, or of a stony hardness, as organic matter by calcareous deposits.
    • Fig.: To become stony, callous, or obdurate.

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