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petrification

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While wandering through the valley of the Clearwater and the adjacent hills, I was much struck with the wonders of petrification.

One day the Major met a company of miners, and related to them the wonderful specimens of petrification seen by him that day.

When she departed, as she did in a state bordering on petrification, he came forward to the bedside.

He would be freed, for ever, from the petrification of the grey, cramping little city.

This is a startling fact for natural philosophers, and must cause them to modify the existing theory of petrification.

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On this page you'll find 12 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to petrification, such as: calcification, coagulation, concretion, crystallization, fossilization, and freezing.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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