Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun petrification

1 sense of petrification

Sense 1
petrifaction, petrification -- (the process of turning some plant material into stone by infiltration with water carrying mineral particles without changing the original shape)
       => fossilization, fossilisation -- (the process of fossilizing a plant or animal that existed in some earlier age; the process of being turned to stone)