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LAPIDIFY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: lapidified   

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Change into stone

Example:

the wood petrified with time

Synonyms:

lapidify; petrify

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "lapidify" is one way to...):

fossilise; fossilize (convert to a fossil)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

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