Meanings of petrification in English

I shall accept involution, petrification of the sutures and limitation with good grace.

The petrification process was unstable, and the jelligantic was disintegrating.

The waters of the lough have curious powers of petrification.

The mistake lies in wishing to escape from it by a petrification of our joys.

I was not investigating a petrification but a fluid.

What lay ahead of me was worse than petrification.

There is another famous petrification in the Iliad.

The very music had an air of incipient petrification, if I can speak so about sounds.

They were in every stage of petrification.

Alas, he waited too long, overshot the mark, and heard his voice go well beyond evenness into petrification.

From some peaks they caught glimpses of other towns that had fallen under the strange spell of the petrification.

And their consternation solidified to petrification when he paused at the end, contemplated the multitude reflectively, and then said, impressively:

The forest of towers marching up out of the waves resembled to some an immense army cursed into eternal petrification.

I thought she was stone, and now I begin to think it must be of such stone as Niobe-thepetrification of despair.

They were kind towards me and made every attempt to lift me out of the state of internal petrification I was in, but in vain.

Well, people are satisfied with this petrification, they accommodate themselves to it, make the most of it, conduct business on it, and live as usual.