lapidify

Verb (usu participle)

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

lapidify(v = verb.change) petrify - change into stone; "the wood petrified with time"

is one way to fossilise, fossilize

Sample sentence:
Something ----s something

lapidify, v. t. [Cf. f. lapidifier. See Lapidific, and -fy.].

To convert into stone or stony material; to petrify. [1913 Webster]

lapidify, v. i.

To become stone or stony. [1913 Webster]

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