petrify
suomi-englanti sanakirjapetrify englannista suomeksi
kovettaa, kivettää, jähmettää
petrifioitua, kovettua, kivettyä
kangistaa
petrify englanniksi
To to stone: to harden organic matter by permeating with water and depositing dissolved minerals.
{{quote-text|en|year=1799|author=Richard Kirwan|title=Geological Essays
To produce rigidity akin to stone.
To immobilize with fright.
(syn)
To become stone, or of a stony hardness, as organic matter by calcareous deposits.
{{quote-text|en|year=1685|author=John Dryden|title=Threnodia Augustalis
(RQ:Landon Ethel Churchill)
To make callous or obdurate; to stupefy; to paralyze; to transform; as by petrification.
(RQ:Pope Dunciad)
{{quote-text|en|year=1874|author=George Eliot|title=letter to Mrs. Ponsonby