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Meaning of "petrifactive" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PETRIFACTIVE

petrifactive  [ˌpɛtrɪˈfæktɪv] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PETRIFACTIVE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Petrifactive is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES PETRIFACTIVE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of petrifactive in the English dictionary

The definition of petrifactive in the dictionary is having the ability to turn substances into stone. Other definition of petrifactive is relating to the procedure of turning matter into stone or the condition of being turned to stone.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PETRIFACTIVE


active
ˈæktɪv
attractive
əˈtræktɪv
bioactive
ˌbaɪəʊˈæktɪv
calefactive
ˌkælɪˈfæktɪv
extractive
ɪkˈstræktɪv
factive
ˈfæktɪv
hyperactive
ˌhaɪpərˈæktɪv
inactive
ɪnˈæktɪv
interactive
ˌɪntərˈæktɪv
liquefactive
ˌlɪkwɪˈfæktɪv
olfactive
ɒlˈfæktɪv
overactive
ˌəʊvərˈæktɪv
proactive
prəʊˈæktɪv
putrefactive
ˌpjuːtrɪˈfæktɪv
radioactive
ˌreɪdɪəʊˈæktɪv
rarefactive
ˌreərɪˈfæktɪv
reactive
rɪˈæktɪv
refractive
rɪˈfræktɪv
stupefactive
ˈstjuːpɪˌfæktɪv
unattractive
ˌʌnəˈtræktɪv

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PETRIFACTIVE

petrale
Petrarch
Petrarchan
Petrarchan sonnet
petrary
petrel
Petri dish
petrichor
Petrie
petrifaction
petrific
petrification
petrified
Petrified Forest
petrifier
petrifies
petrify
petrifying
Petrine
petrissage

WORDS THAT END LIKE PETRIFACTIVE

addictive
alternative
collective
constrictive
cost-effective
defective
destructive
detective
directive
distinctive
effective
objective
perspective
productive
prospective
protective
reflective
reproductive
respective
selective
subjective

Synonyms and antonyms of petrifactive in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «petrifactive» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PETRIFACTIVE

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The translations of petrifactive from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «petrifactive» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

petrifactive
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

petrifactive
570 millions of speakers

English

petrifactive
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

petrifactive
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

petrifactive
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

petrifactive
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

petrifactive
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

petrifactive
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

petrifactive
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Petrifaktif
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

petrifactive
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

petrifactive
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

petrifactive
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Petrifactive
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

petrifactive
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

petrifactive
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पेटीजन्य
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

petrifactive
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

petrifactive
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

petrifactive
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

petrifactive
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

petrifactive
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

petrifactive
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

petrifactive
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

petrifactive
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

petrifactive
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of petrifactive

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PETRIFACTIVE»

The term «petrifactive» is normally little used and occupies the 141.184 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PETRIFACTIVE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «petrifactive» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «petrifactive» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about petrifactive

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PETRIFACTIVE»

Discover the use of petrifactive in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to petrifactive and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Elements of Chemical and Physical Geology
that the pseudomorphic, as well as the petrifactive changes, have been effected in the wet way. If these substances could replace by this means the substance of organic remains, they could likewise replace or alter, by the same means, the ...
Gustav Bischof, 1854
2
Principles of Medicine: An Elementary View of the Causes, ...
This petrifactive transformation recalls to mind what has been spoken of in relation to cacoplastic depositions in the coats of arteries, and on serous membranes (§ 544, 553,) and as constituting the structural alteration that is erroneously called ...
Charles James Blasius Williams, 1864
3
Methodist Magazine for ...
Had these been collected into one heap, and afterwards consolidated by petrifactive matter, they would undoubtedly have occupied a very considerable space. What then, must have been the case, when every man, nay every other terrestrial ...
John Wesley, George Story
4
The annals and magazine of natural history, zoology, botany ...
The examination of fossil woods shows, that after they are filled up by the various petrifactive media (carbonate of lime, silica, the various forms of oxides of iron and copper, cinnabar, baryta, gypsum, lead- glance and clay), in by far the greater ...
‎1858
5
Annals and Magazine of Natural History
The examination of fossil woods shows, that after they are filled up by the various petrifactive media (carbonate of lime, silica, the various forms of oxides of iron and copper, cinnabar, baryta, gypsum, leadglance and clay), in by far the greater  ...
‎1858
6
The Annals and Magazine of Natural History: Zoology, Botany, ...
... spicule of large size, which may represent the Esperiadae, its usual companions (viz. the anchorates) being assumed to have been too small to have survived the trituration of the deposit, or the solvent effect of the petrifactive process. Figs.
‎1871
7
Mineralogia Cornubiensis; a Treatise on Minerals, Mines and ...
... probably, incrustates and fills up those very minute sissures, with a petrifactive gluten,_ if it is at all charged with such principles ; and we have neither theory or reason to dissent from that opinion, as we think it must partake of every principle  ...
William Pryce, 1778
8
Sketches of the Elements of Natural Philosophy: Accompanied ...
This difference is easily accounted for 'by adverting to the fact, that it depends wholly upon the petrifactive or non-petrifactive properties of the stratum in which these remains are imbedded. Those found in gypsum or calc-tuff beds, are ...
John Linnaeus Edward Whitridge Shecut, 1826
9
Lectures and discourses of earthquakes and subterraneous ...
Sixthly, That those Shells so silled and inclosed, as above faid, are according to the differing Nature of the Petrifactive Liquor or Juice: sometimes also Petrify'd retaining still the fame Figure they were of when the Petrifactive Juice began to ...
Robert Hooke, Arthur Percival Rossiter, Richard Waller, 1978
10
The biblical geography of Asia Minor, Phoenicia, and Arabia
Strabo observes, that the petrifactive properties of this fountain are so powerful, that when its stream is introduced into a channel, it produces a stony substance, which gradually chokes up the course. On a plain surface, it forms excavations, ...
Ern. Frid. Car Rosenmüller, 1841

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