ENGLISH DICTIONARY

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

  1. (transitive) To convert into stone or stony material; to petrify.
  2. (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

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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