Defenition of the word petrify
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Defenition of the word petrify
- To harden organic matter by permeating with water and depositing dissolved minerals.
- To immobilize with fright.
- To become like stone, especially by petrifaction.
- change into stone; "the wood petrified with time"
- cause to become stone-like or stiff; "The horror petrified his feelings"; "Fear petrified her thinking"
- cause to become stone-like or stiff or dazed and stunned; "The horror petrified his feelings"; "Fear petrified her thinking"
- make rigid and set into a conventional pattern; "rigidify the training schedule"; "ossified teaching methods"; "slogans petrify our thinking"
- cause to become stonelike or stiff or dazed and stunned
- make rigid and set into a conventional pattern
- change into stone
Synonyms for the word petrify
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- alarm
- be dumbfounded
- benumb
- calcify
- confound
- deaden
- fill with fear
- fossilize
- frighten
- harden
- horrify
- lapidify
- paralyse
- scare
- set
- solidify
- stiffen
- strike dumb
- stupefy
- terrify
- turn into stone
Similar words in the petrify
Hypernyms for the word petrify
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- blunt
- deaden
- fossilise
- fossilize
- stiffen
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