kivettyä — meaning in English

English meaning

• petrify verb To turn to stone: to harden organic matter by permeating with water and depositing dissolved minerals.

Senses

kivettyä is used for these senses in English:

• opalize (transitive) To convert into a form of opal or chalcedony, especially to convert wood into such a fossilized form.
• petrify (intransitive) To become stone, or of a stony hardness, as organic matter by calcareous deposits.

petrify — full definition

1. verb To turn to stone: to harden organic matter by permeating with water and depositing dissolved minerals.
2. verb To make something stiff and hard, as if it had turned to stone.
3. verb To make someone so frightened that they cannot move.
4. 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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