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Petrify

Petrify Definition And Meaning
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"rify\, 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"rify\, 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.

Petrify Definition And Meaning

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

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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