kivettää — meaning in English
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English meaning
- petrify verb To turn to stone: to harden organic matter by permeating with water and depositing dissolved minerals.
Senses
kivettää is used for these senses in English:
petrify — full definition
- verb To turn to stone: to harden organic matter by permeating with water and depositing dissolved minerals.
- verb To make something stiff and hard, as if it had turned to stone.
- verb To make someone so frightened that they cannot move.
- verb To turn to stone, or to gain a stone-like hardness, as when organic material is transformed by calcareous deposits.
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