Lapidify
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Lapidify is a verb meaning (intransitive) To become stone or stony.
Meaning
(intransitive) To become stone or stony.
More Meanings
- (transitive) To convert into stone or stony material; to petrify.
- (transitive) To cause to become permanent; to solidify.
Example Sentences
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.
Word Forms
- lapidifies
- lapidifying
- lapidified
Synonyms for lapidify
Depending on context, synonyms include petrify.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include petrify, stonify, lapidate, fossilize, liquefy, glacify.
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