Lapidify (Verb)
Meaning
Change into stone; "the wood petrified with time".
Classification
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc..
Examples
- The explorers discovered a tree that had begun to lapidify over thousands of years, its bark transforming into a stone-like exterior.
- As the organism perished, its body started to lapidify, leaving behind a fossilized shell that would remain for eternity.
- The ancient forest was said to hold the power to lapidify its inhabitants, turning them into statues over time.
- Decades of being submerged in the ocean had caused the ship's wooden hull to lapidify, preserving it for modern archaeologists.
- According to local legend, anyone who gazed into the magical pool would begin to lapidify, their body turning to stone as they stared into its depths.