Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Possessing the property of changing or converting into stone; petrifying.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Petrifying; converting into stone.
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- adjective
Petrifying ; converting intostone .
Etymologies
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Latin petra rock, stone, from Ancient Greek.
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