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petrification

/pe-truh-fak-shuhn/US // ˌpɛ trəˈfæk ʃən //UK // (ˌpɛtrɪˈfækʃən) //

石化,石化现象,石化作用,岩化

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the act or process of petrifying; the state of being petrified.
    • : something petrified.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as insolidification
Synonyms
calcification钙化,钙化现象,钙化作用,煅烧coagulation凝结,凝固,凝血,凝结力concretion凝结物,凝固物,凝灰岩,凝结核crystallization结晶,晶化,结晶化,结晶作用fossilization化石化,化石,僵化freezing冻结,冷冻,冻结的,凝固ossification骨化,骨化作用,骨质化,骨化现象setting设置,设定,环境,场景solidifying凝固,凝固性,凝固的,固化casehardening案例硬化,案例分析,案例解析,壳体硬化

Examples

  • 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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