About The Word Petrify
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Petrify
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What's The Definition Of Petrify?
[v] cause to become stone-like or stiff or dazed and stunned; "The horror petrified his feelings"; "Fear petrified her thinking"
[v] make rigid and set into a conventional pattern; "rigidify the training schedule"; "ossified teaching methods"; "slogans petrify our thinking" [v] change into stone; "the wood petrified with time" Synonyms | Synonyms for Petrify: lapidify | ossify | rigidify Related Terms | Find terms related to Petrify: alarm | amaze | anneal | appall | astonish | astound | awe | awestrike | bedaze | bedazzle | bemuse | benumb | bewilder | boggle | bowl down | bowl over | calcify | callous | case harden | confound | cornify | crystallize | daze | dazzle | disconcert | dismay | dumbfound | dumbfounder | firm | flabbergast | fossilize | freeze | frighten | harden | horrify | indurate | lapidify | lithify | numb | ossify | overwhelm | paralyze | perplex | scare | scare stiff | scare to death | shock | stagger | startle | steel | strike dead | strike dumb | strike terror into | strike with wonder | stun | stupefy | surprise | temper | terrify | toughen | turn to stone | vitrify See Also | blunt | deaden | fossilise | fossilize | stiffen Petrify In Webster's Dictionary \Pet"ri*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Petrified}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Petrifying}.] [L. petra rock, Gr. ? (akin to ? a
stone) + -fy: cf. F. p['e]trifier. Cf. {Parrot}, {Petrel},
{Pier}.]
1. To convert, as any animal or vegetable matter, into stone
or stony substance.
A river that petrifies any sort of wood or leaves.
--Kirwan.
2. To make callous or obdurate; to stupefy; to paralyze; to
transform; as by petrifaction; as, to petrify the heart.
Young. ``Petrifying accuracy.'' --Sir W. Scott.
And petrify a genius to a dunce. --Pope.
The poor, petrified journeyman, quite unconscious of
what he was doing. --De Quincey.
A hideous fatalism, which ought, logically, to
petrify your volition. --G. Eliot.
\Pet"ri*fy\, v. i. 1. To become stone, or of a stony hardness, as organic matter by calcareous deposits. 2. Fig.: To become stony, callous, or obdurate. Like Niobe we marble grow, And petrify with grief. --Dryden. |
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