braze vs petrify

braze

verb
  • To cover with brass, or as with brass. 

  • To join two metal pieces, without melting them, using heat and diffusion of a jointing alloy of capillary thickness. 

noun
  • A kind of small charcoal used for roasting ore. 

petrify

verb
  • To produce rigidity akin to stone. 

  • To make callous or obdurate; to stupefy; to paralyze; to transform; as by petrification. 

  • To become stone, or of a stony hardness, as organic matter by calcareous deposits. 

  • To harden organic matter by permeating with water and depositing dissolved minerals. 

  • To immobilize with fright. 

  • To become stony, callous, or obdurate. 

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