Lapidify

verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To become stone or stony. intransitive
  2. 2
    change into stone wordnet
  3. 3
    To convert into stone or stony material; to petrify. transitive
  4. 4
    To cause to become permanent; to solidify. transitive

    "The rule of the Abang, in an age when the techniques existed to lapidify any rule to permanency, was, because of the very rise of a party, doomed."

Synonyms

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callousfirmfossilizehardenindurateossify

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"The rule of the Abang, in an age when the techniques existed to lapidify any rule to permanency, was, because of the very rise of a party, doomed."

Etymology

From Latin lapis (“stone”) + -ify.

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