petrification

• HYPHEN: pet=ri=fi=ca=tion

CIDE DICTIONARY

petrification, n. [Cf. F. pétrification. See Petrify.].

•  See Petrifaction.  [1913 Webster]
•  Fig.: Obduracy; callousness.  Hallywell.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

petrification

ancient manuscript, antique, antiquity, archaism, arteriosclerosis, artifact, atherosclerosis, calcification, callusing, case hardening, cave painting, concretion, cornification, crystallization, eolith, firming, fossil, fossilization, granulation, hardening, hornification, induration, lapidification, lithification, mezzolith, microlith, neolith, ossification, paleolith, petrifaction, petrified forest, petrified wood, petroglyph, plateaulith, relic, reliquiae, remains, ruin, ruins, sclerosis, setting, solidification, steeling, stiffening, survival, tempering, toughening, vestige, vitrifaction, vitrification

ROGET THESAURUS

petrification

Density

N density, solidity, solidness, impenetrability, impermeability, incompressibility, imporosity, cohesion, constipation, consistence, spissitude, specific gravity, hydrometer, areometer, condensation, caseation, solidation, solidification, consolidation, concretion, coagulation, petrification, crystallization, precipitation, deposit, precipitate, inspissation, gelation, thickening, indivisibility, indiscerptibility, insolubility, indissolvableness, solid body, mass, block, knot, lump, concretion, concrete, conglomerate, cake, clot, stone, curd, coagulum, bone, gristle, cartilage, casein, crassamentum, legumin, superdense matter, condensed states of matter, dwarf star, neutron star, dense, solid, solidified, caseous, pukka, coherent, cohesive, compact, close, serried, thickset, substantial, massive, lumpish, impenetrable, impermeable, nonporous, imporous, incompressible, constipated, concrete, knotted, knotty, gnarled, crystalline, crystallizable, thick, grumous, stuffy, undissolved, unmelted, unliquefied, unthawed, indivisible, indiscerptible, infrangible, indissolvable, indissoluble, insoluble, infusible.