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vb. To convert, as any animal or vegetable matter, into stone or stony substance. To make callous or obdurate; to stupefy; to paralyze; to transform; as by petrifaction; as, to petrify the heart.

 - vb. To become stone, or of a stony hardness, as organic matter by calcareous deposits. Fig.: To become stony, callous, or obdurate.