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 into stone.

Etymologies

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Latin petra rock, stone, from Ancient Greek.

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