Petrification

When Anthony Perkins starts slashing at the curtain, I think my entire body was frozen in petrification. ❋ Jessica Hopkins (2010)

The process in which wood is preserved by permineralization, commonly known as petrification, takes extensive amounts of time. ❋ Ebrianson (2009)

Ashfall leaves tree trunks vertical in strata for subsequent mineralization and petrification. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Instant petrification or slow and gory torturous death? ❋ Hal Duncan (2009)

"Well," he snarled, "I suppose I gotta give you cheap skates a drink when I ain't got more'n enough for a good petrification for myself." ❋ Unknown (2010)

Alas, he waited too long, overshot the mark, and heard his voice go well beyond evenness into petrification. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The young warrior is captured by a demon, and actually will need a bit of magical talisman help given he has the demon's boss wizard and his petrification ray to deal with as well. ❋ Blue Tyson (2008)

So, for instance, the older and etymologically correct but less common petrification has achieved great popularity from its use in D&D and is now over twice as common on the Internet (41000 to 17400 Google pages) over the formerly standard petrifaction. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Warning: In the event of accidental petrification, consult a sorcerer or deity of your choice. ❋ Eeleen Lee (2010)

Do you think that petrification is what happens to dogs after eating that wiener extravaganza? ❋ Jen (2009)

Your law school is so skank that when the landfill it was built on collapsed it sank fifty feet into sludge and when the petrification poured through the windows and the miasma rose through the rafters it sighed with satisfied relief and said, "My goodness how nice it is to finally breathe fresh air." ❋ Ann Althouse (2009)

Rixon shares membership in that dedicated body of workers referred to facetiously by the late D. R. Barton as 'the Jimmy Valentines of Science' -- the middlemen through whose hands a petrification must normally pass before it can be properly evaluated as a scientific object. ❋ ReBecca Foster (2009)