lapidify

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

lapidify
    v 1: change into stone; "the wood petrified with time" [syn:
         {lapidify}, {petrify}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Lapidify \La*pid"i*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Lapidified}; p. pr.
   & vb. n. {Lapidifying}.] [Cf. f. lapidifier. See {Lapidific},
   and {-fy}.]
   To convert into stone or stony material; to petrify.
   [1913 Webster]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Lapidify \La*pid"i*fy\, v. i.
   To become stone or stony.
   [1913 Webster]

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