PETRIFIED

PETRIFY

petrify

(verb) cause to become stonelike or stiff or dazed and stunned from fright; “The horror petrified his feelings”; “Fear petrified her thinking”

rigidify, ossify, petrify

(verb) make rigid and set into a conventional pattern; “rigidify the training schedule”; “ossified teaching methods”; “slogans petrify our thinking”

lapidify, petrify

(verb) change into stone; “the wood petrified with time”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Adjective

petrified (comparative more petrified, superlative most petrified)

Extremely afraid.

Synonyms

• See afraid

Verb

petrified

simple past tense and past participle of petrify

Source: Wiktionary

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PETRIFY

Pet"ri*fy, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Petrified; p. pr. & vb. n. Petrifying.] Etym: [L. petra rock, Gr. -fy: cf. F. pétrifier. 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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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