petrify
Meaning of petrify
verb
- To harden organic matter by permeating with water and depositing dissolved minerals.
- To produce rigidity akin to stone.
- To immobilize with fright.
- To become stone, or of a stony hardness, as organic matter by calcareous deposits.
- To become stony, callous, or obdurate.
- To make callous or obdurate; to stupefy; to paralyze; to transform; as by petrification.
Information about petrify
- It is a verb.
- The plural form of petrify is: petrifies.
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Hyphenation of petrify
pet-rify
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- petrify is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
petrify synonyms
Meaning lapidify:
Meaning rigidify:
Translation of petrify
- German: petrifizieren, versteinern, erstarren
- French: pétrifier
Words that rhyme with petrify
clarify, parify, rarify, saccarify, saccharify, scarify, varify, lubrify, rubrify, salubrify, alacrify, lucrify, micrify, sacrify, chondrify, aerify, esterify, etherify, noverify, preverify, reverify, sclerify, sherify, spherify, verify, hungrify, nigrify, transmogrify, pulchrify, Osirify, airify, virify, Torify, calorify, coglorify, corporify, disglorify, frigorify, glorify, historify, recorporify, reglorify, scorify, storify, unglorify, caprify, horrify, starrify, tarrify, terrify
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