Usually means: Turning organic material into stone.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word petrifaction:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. petrifaction: Merriam-Webster
  2. petrifaction: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. petrifaction: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. petrifaction: Collins English Dictionary
  5. petrifaction: Vocabulary.com
  6. petrifaction: Wordnik
  7. petrifaction: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. petrifaction: Wiktionary
  9. petrifaction: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. petrifaction: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. petrifaction: Dictionary.com
  12. Petrifaction (disambiguation), Petrifaction: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Petrifaction: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. petrifaction: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. petrifaction: Rhymezone
  16. Petrifaction: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. petrifaction: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. petrifaction: FreeDictionary.org
  19. petrifaction: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. petrifaction: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. petrifaction: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. petrifaction: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. petrifaction: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. petrifaction: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. On-Line Biology Book: GLOSSARY (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (petrifaction)

noun:  Petrification.
noun:  An object that has become petrified.
noun:  The condition of being petrified.

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