"lithify" meaning in English

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      "form": "lithifies",
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  "pos": "verb",
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        {
          "word": "autolithify"
        },
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          "word": "lithification"
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        {
          "ref": "2003, Ann G. Harris et al., Geology of National Parks, page 13",
          "text": "Shale is fine-grained rock made of silt or wet mud that has been lithified by compaction and cementation.",
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        "To turn sediment into solid rock"
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        [
          "sediment",
          "sediment"
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          "rock",
          "rock"
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        {
          "word": "diagenesis"
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        {
          "word": "petrify"
        }
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  "word": "lithify"
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      "word": "lithification"
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  "etymology_text": "lith- + -ify",
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      "form": "lithifies",
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        "third-person"
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      "form": "lithifying",
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        }
      ],
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        "To turn sediment into solid rock"
      ],
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