lapidify

• Устаревший глагол, означающий превращать в камень или окаменевать.

An obsolete verb meaning to turn into stone or petrify.

1. Turn into stoneC2formal

   To transform or be transformed into stone or a stony substance; to petrify.

   Превратить в камень

   • Over millions of years, the organic material began to lapidify.
   • The minerals in the water caused the wood to lapidify slowly.
   • Ancient fossils often lapidify under the right conditions.

   Синонимыcalcifyfossilizepetrify