petrification

Betekenis (Engels)

1. (countable, uncountable) Turning to stone: the process of replacement of the organic residues of plants (and animals) with insoluble salts, with the original shape and topography being retained.
2. (countable, figuratively, uncountable) obduracy; callousness.
3. (countable, figuratively, uncountable) Sheer terror; great fright.

Sinonieme

petrifaction

fossilization

fossil

petrified

rigidity

rigor

rock

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silicification

stiffening

stiffness

stupor

fossilisation

calcification

lithification

mineralization

ossification

Vertalings

pétrification

Versteinerung

petrificación

verstening

petrificació

Erstarrung

Fossil

Gestein

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Erstarren

Steifheit

Verkrampfung

Petrifikation

Steifwerden

Verkrampftheit

Etimologie (Engels)

From French pétrification, from Middle French pétrifier + -ation.