Meaning

3 senses

  1. (intransitive)To become stone or stony.

    change into stone

  2. (transitive)To convert into stone or stony material; to petrify.

  3. (transitive)To cause to become permanent; to solidify.

Origin

From Latin lapid- (“stone”) + -ify.

From Latin lapid- (“stone”) + -ify.

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Forms

lapidifies, lapidifying, lapidified, lapidified
Base formlapidify · to lapidify
3rd person singularlapidifies
Present participlelapidifying
Past simplelapidified
Past participlelapidified

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theylapidify
he, she, itlapidifies

Past simpleLesson

all personslapidified

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave lapidified
he, she, ithas lapidified

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill lapidify

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

1 related words
Relatedlapidification

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
laoslapB2lapellapseC1laptopB2
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