petrification


Also found in: Dictionary, Medical, Legal, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia.
Graphic Thesaurus  🔍
Display ON
Animation ON
Legend
Synonym
Antonym
Related
  • noun

Synonyms for petrification

the process of turning some plant material into stone by infiltration with water carrying mineral particles without changing the original shape

Based on WordNet 3.0, Farlex clipart collection. © 2003-2012 Princeton University, Farlex Inc.
References in periodicals archive ?
The field journal excerpt also reveals another aspect inherent to the streets-based code, which is the subject's petrification by a totalizing discourse that does not allow him to reflect on his social place (1).
In order to meet the zealous demands of new heroes, Kingdom Story S.E.A will be introducing Warring States Qin Kingdom, which introduces five new officers with designs being revamped and improvised to a more spectacular combat display, and are also capable of casting new status effects, namely Paralysis and Petrification.
Calvino thoroughly catalogues in his notes the motifs from the Medusa myth that are repeated in Pitre's folk tale: Danae's isolation that still does not prevent her from giving birth to a child; the Medusa enterprise imposed upon Perseus by King Polydectes; the power to fly (in our tale on a horse, in the myth with winded sandals); the three Gray Women who share one eye and one tooth among them; the silver shield used as a mirror to view Medusa safely; blood that transforms into serpents; the freeing of Andromeda from the monster; and King Polydectes' petrification (Fiabe italiane 1077-1078).
To look at the Gorgon is to be petrified, but petrification in Freud's reading is not destruction, but rather the defiant assertion of masculinity.
Primarily, Laing (1960/1965) describes that the ontologically insecure person experiences the following types of anxiety: 1) engulfment: a fear of being swallowed up by another; a fear of losing one's own sense of being or agency, 2) implosion: any contact with reality threatens to annihilate the person as she or he feels empty and any contact may generate too much for the person to hold in her or his emptiness, 3) petrification and depersonalization: where becoming an object or thing induces terror; constant vigilance to be reminded that she or he is a person must be maintained.
Petrification Customs House South Shields After his dad dies, Simon returns home from London to find everything has changed.
Petrification first saw light of day the following year at Gateshead International Festival of Theatre when it was a 30-minute piece performed on a shoestring budget.
These less-traditional performance spaces will host three works on the theme of a night out - With a Little Bit of Luck, drama set to an old school Garage soundtrack; Get A Round, a play set at the end of an evening out; and Petrification, contemporary theatre about a boozy night out (and a world premiere).
(6) The analogy to Lewis's life is the relatively short time between his conversion to Theism (Surprised 214-15) and his return to Christian belief (Surprised 221-23), although he does not separate the stages with a period of petrification. This seeking of parallels to Lewis's life need not be a simple attempt to experience Lewis's personality through his works (which he depreciated in his first essay in The Personal Heresy) but may be taken as seeking evidence that Lewis writes out of what he experienced, out of what he truly believes, not just writing what he thinks he should be saying to his readers.
She contends that Murdoch does not objectify female characters, but instead draws attention to their active passivity and resistance to petrification. The male gaze, she suggests, is here re-appropriated by female characters and utilized as a tool of female empowerment rather than objectification.
Durham's installation The Dangers of Petrification, 1998-2007, installed in a vitrine-filled upstairs gallery that also includes works by Donald Burgy and Richard Long, among others, provides the show's curatorial hinge.
He called them, and he calls all of us, to examine our consciences and confess our sins of pride, greed, rigidity, harshness, mental and spiritual "petrification," gossip and hypocrisy so as to remain in Christ, the true and lifegiving vine.
without further petrification. In the preparation, 2.0g CMC was then diluted into distilled water.