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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
petrification
    n 1: the process of turning some plant material into stone by
         infiltration with water carrying mineral particles without
         changing the original shape [syn: petrifaction,
         petrification]
2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Petrification \Pet`ri*fi*ca"tion\, n. [Cf. F. p['e]trification.
   See Petrify.]
   1. See Petrifaction.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. Fig.: Obduracy; callousness. --Hallywell.
      [1913 Webster]
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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
ancient manuscript, antique, antiquity, archaism, arteriosclerosis, artifact, atherosclerosis, calcification, callusing, case hardening, cave painting, concretion, cornification, crystallization, eolith, firming, fossil, fossilization, granulation, hardening, hornification, induration, lapidification, lithification, mezzolith, microlith, neolith, ossification, paleolith, petrifaction, petrified forest, petrified wood, petroglyph, plateaulith, relic, reliquiae, remains, ruin, ruins, sclerosis, setting, solidification, steeling, stiffening, survival, tempering, toughening, vestige, vitrifaction, vitrification
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