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"(transitive) To turn to stone: to harden organic matter by permeating with water and depositing dissolved minerals."
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"To produce rigidity akin to stone."
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"To become stone, or of a stony hardness, as organic matter by calcareous deposits."
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"(intransitive) To become stone, or of a stony hardness, as organic matter by calcareous deposits."
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"2": "facere",
"3": "",
"4": "do, make"
},
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"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "petro",
"3": "ify"
},
"expansion": "petro- + -ify",
"name": "con"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle French pétrifier, from Medieval Latin petrificāre, from Latin petra (“rock”), from Ancient Greek πέτρα (pétra, “rock”) + -ficāre, from facere (“do, make”), equivalent to petro- + -ify.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "petrifies",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "petrifying",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "petrified",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "petrified",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
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"args": {},
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"name": "en-verb"
}
],
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"related": [
{
"word": "petrifaction"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"English transitive verbs",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1799, Richard Kirwan, Geological Essays",
"text": "a river that petrifies any sort of wood or leaves",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To turn to stone: to harden organic matter by permeating with water and depositing dissolved minerals."
],
"links": [
[
"turn to",
"turn to"
],
[
"stone",
"stone"
],
[
"organic",
"organic"
],
[
"permeating",
"permeate"
],
[
"mineral",
"mineral"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To turn to stone: to harden organic matter by permeating with water and depositing dissolved minerals."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"To produce rigidity akin to stone."
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"To immobilize with fright."
],
"links": [
[
"immobilize",
"immobilize"
],
[
"fright",
"fright"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"To become stone, or of a stony hardness, as organic matter by calcareous deposits."
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive) To become stone, or of a stony hardness, as organic matter by calcareous deposits."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs",
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1685, John Dryden, Threnodia Augustalis",
"text": "Like Niobe we marble grow, / And petrify with grief.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To become stony, callous, or obdurate."
],
"links": [
[
"callous",
"callous"
],
[
"obdurate",
"obdurate"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive, figurative) To become stony, callous, or obdurate."
],
"tags": [
"figuratively",
"intransitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"English transitive verbs",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1874, George Eliot, letter to Mrs. Ponsonby",
"text": "A hideous fatalism, which ought, logically, to petrify your volition.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To make callous or obdurate; to stupefy; to paralyze; to transform; as by petrification."
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, figurative) To make callous or obdurate; to stupefy; to paralyze; to transform; as by petrification."
],
"tags": [
"figuratively",
"transitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈpɛ.tɹəˌfaɪ/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
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"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "ast",
"lang": "Asturian",
"sense": "to harden organic matter",
"word": "petrificar"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "vkamenjavam",
"sense": "to harden organic matter",
"word": "вкаменявам"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to harden organic matter",
"word": "petrificar"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "to harden organic matter",
"word": "forstene"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to harden organic matter",
"word": "verstenen"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to harden organic matter",
"word": "kivettää"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to harden organic matter",
"word": "pétrifier"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to harden organic matter",
"word": "petrificar"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to harden organic matter",
"word": "versteinern"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "apolithóno",
"sense": "to harden organic matter",
"word": "απολιθώνω"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "pōróō",
"sense": "to harden organic matter",
"word": "πωρόω"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to harden organic matter",
"word": "pietrificare"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "sekika suru",
"sense": "to harden organic matter",
"word": "石化する"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to harden organic matter",
"word": "petrificar"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to harden organic matter",
"word": "petrifica"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "prevraščátʹ v kámenʹ",
"sense": "to harden organic matter",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "превраща́ть в ка́мень"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to harden organic matter",
"word": "petrificar"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to harden organic matter",
"word": "förstena"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "vkamenjavam",
"sense": "to produce rigidity akin to stone",
"word": "вкаменявам"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to produce rigidity akin to stone",
"word": "petrificar"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "to produce rigidity akin to stone",
"word": "forstene"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to produce rigidity akin to stone",
"word": "verstenen"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to produce rigidity akin to stone",
"word": "kovettaa"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to produce rigidity akin to stone",
"word": "pétrifier"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to produce rigidity akin to stone",
"word": "versteinern"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "apolithóno",
"sense": "to produce rigidity akin to stone",
"word": "απολιθώνω"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "pōróō",
"sense": "to produce rigidity akin to stone",
"word": "πωρόω"
},
{
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "pathrānā",
"sense": "to produce rigidity akin to stone",
"word": "पथराना"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to produce rigidity akin to stone",
"word": "petrificar"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to produce rigidity akin to stone",
"word": "petrifica"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to produce rigidity akin to stone",
"word": "förstena"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "vcepenjavam",
"sense": "to immobilize with fright",
"word": "вцепенявам"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to immobilize with fright",
"word": "petrificar"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "to immobilize with fright",
"word": "forstene"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to immobilize with fright",
"word": "verstenen"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to immobilize with fright",
"word": "verstarren"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to immobilize with fright",
"word": "kivettää"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to immobilize with fright",
"word": "jähmettää"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to immobilize with fright",
"word": "pétrifier"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to immobilize with fright",
"word": "petrificar"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to immobilize with fright",
"word": "erstarren"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to immobilize with fright",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "drętwieć"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to immobilize with fright",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "zdrętwieć"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to immobilize with fright",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "lodowacieć"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to immobilize with fright",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "zlodowacieć"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to immobilize with fright",
"word": "petrificar"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to immobilize with fright",
"word": "petrifica"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to immobilize with fright",
"word": "împietri"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to immobilize with fright",
"word": "petrificar"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to immobilize with fright",
"word": "förstena"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "to immobilize with fright",
"word": "nanigas"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "cipeníty",
"sense": "to immobilize with fright",
"word": "ціпені́ти"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "vkamenjavam se",
"sense": "to become stone, or of a stony hardness",
"word": "вкаменявам се"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to become stone, or of a stony hardness",
"word": "kivettyä"
},
{
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "pathrānā",
"sense": "to become stone, or of a stony hardness",
"word": "पथराना"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to become stone, or of a stony hardness",
"word": "lapidesco"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "kamenétʹ",
"sense": "to become stone, or of a stony hardness",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "камене́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "okamenétʹ",
"sense": "to become stone, or of a stony hardness",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "окамене́ть"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "vkamenjavam se",
"sense": "to become stony, callous, or obdurate",
"word": "вкаменявам се"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to become stony, callous, or obdurate",
"word": "kovettua"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "kamenétʹ",
"sense": "to become stony, callous, or obdurate",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "камене́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "okamenétʹ",
"sense": "to become stony, callous, or obdurate",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "окамене́ть"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to make callous or obdurate; to transform as by petrification",
"word": "使发呆"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to make callous or obdurate; to transform as by petrification",
"word": "jähmettää"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to make callous or obdurate; to transform as by petrification",
"word": "kovettaa"
}
],
"word": "petrify"
}
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