Petrify vs Lithify - What's the difference?
petrify | lithify | Synonyms |
To harden organic matter by permeating with water and depositing dissolved minerals.
* (and other bibliographic particulars) Kirwan
To produce rigidity akin to stone.
To immobilize with fright.
To become stone, or of a stony hardness, as organic matter by calcareous deposits.
(figurative) To become stony, callous, or obdurate.
* (and other bibliographic particulars) Dryden
(figurative) To make callous or obdurate; to stupefy; to paralyze; to transform; as by petrification.
* (and other bibliographic particulars) (Alexander Pope)
* (and other bibliographic particulars) (George Eliot)
To turn sediment into solid rock
*{{quote-book, 2003, Ann G. Harris et al., Geology of National Parks
, passage=Shale is fine-grained rock made of silt or wet mud that has been lithified by compaction and cementation. }}
Petrify is a synonym of lithify.
As verbs the difference between petrify and lithify
is that petrify is to harden organic matter by permeating with water and depositing dissolved minerals while lithify is to turn sediment into solid rock.petrify
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- a river that petrifies any sort of wood or leaves
- Like Niobe we marble grow, / And petrify with grief.
- petrify a genius to a dunce
- A hideous fatalism, which ought, logically, to petrify your volition.
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* See alsolithify
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