PETRIFY

(verb) cause to become stonelike or stiff or dazed and stunned
"The horror petrified his feelings", "Fear petrified her thinking"
(verb) make rigid and set into a conventional pattern
"rigidify the training schedule", "ossified teaching methods", "slogans petrify our thinking"
synonyms : ossify , rigidify
(verb) change into stone
"the wood petrified with time"
synonyms : lapidify

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A Log of 100 million year old silicated Petrified Wood, which has petrified with time and have become a stone now.

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(Tag: Hindi) sounds like PATHARify (hindi pathar-stone)hence, the word.
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Mnemonics for petrify

(Tag: English) killing a pet with a riffle (by being STONE hearted)
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(Tag: hindi-english) patri(stone)..the disease of stone in hindi is called PATRI which is nothing but a stone
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(Tag: ) petrify sounds like stupefy remember harrypotter
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(Tag: Synonyms) petIFY -> ossIFY
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