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To lapidify is to turn into stone or cause something else to become stone. The word is as comfortable in geology as it is in ancient legends — think of lava cooling into rock, or statues forming from mythic curses. There's no turning back when something lapidifies.
Example: The magical spring water was said to have the power to lapidify any living creature that touched it.
