"Petrifaction" is a word in ENGLISH
Fig.: Hardness; callousness; obduracy.
That which is petrified; popularly, a body incrusted
with stony matter; an incrustation.
The process of petrifying, or changing into stone;
conversion of any organic matter (animal or vegetable) into stone, or a
substance of stony hardness.
The state or condition of being petrified.
The Road Not TakenTwo roads diverged in a yellow wood,And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same, And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back. I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.
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To convert into stone or stony material; to petrify.
Read the complete definitionTo become stone, or of a stony hardness, as organic matter by calcareous deposits.
Read the complete definitionFig.: To become stony, callous, or obdurate.
Read the complete definitionTo convert, as any animal or vegetable matter, into stone or stony substance.
Read the complete definitionConverting into stone; petrifying; petrific.
Read the complete definitionInflexible; cruel; unrelenting; pitiless; obdurate; perverse; cold; morally hard; appearing as if petrified; as, a stony heart; a stony gaze.
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