Crossword-Solution: PETRIFACTION
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Petrifaction | n. | The process of petrifying, or changing into stone; conversion of any organic matter (animal or vegetable) into stone, or a substance of stony hardness. |
| Petrifaction | n. | The state or condition of being petrified. |
| Petrifaction | n. | That which is petrified; popularly, a body incrusted with stony matter; an incrustation. |
| Petrifaction | n. | Fig.: Hardness; callousness; obduracy. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| PETRIFACTION | anagram | FRICTIONTAPE |
We have 4 clues for the answer “PETRIFACTION”
| Clue | Answers |
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| petrifying | 1 answer |
| the process of petrifying | 1 answer |
| stiffening | 10 answers |
| Hardening | 64 answers |
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Sentences with PETRIFACTION (5)
Before they had time to get decomposed from their state of petrifaction I had remounted my dromedary, and was darting away towards the east.
Esther, whose eyes had come alive and her cheeks flushed during these last words, relapsed in a second into a state of petrifaction.
The trees, burdened with the last infinitesimal pennyweight of snow their branches could hold, stood in absolute petrifaction.
Petrifaction or mummification of the body are quite well known, and not being in the province of this work, will be referred to collateral books on this subject; but sometimes an unaccountable preservation takes place.
Akin to the foregoing condition is what is known as petrifaction or ossification of portions of the living human body other than the articulations.
Quotes with PETRIFACTION (2)
Yet all three animals were keyed to a tenseness of living that was almost painful, and scarcely ever would it come to them to be more alive than they were then in their seeming petrifaction.
On Friday evening Martin and Mona went to the United Artists Theatre to see a film already being mentioned for the Academy award. It had three stars, ran a hundred and ten minutes, and bored them both to petrifaction. (In brief, the award was in the bag.) The Case of the Seven of Calvary