Petrify (Verb)
Meaning 1
Change into stone; "the wood petrified with time".
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Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc..
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Meaning 2
Make rigid and set into a conventional pattern; "rigidify the training schedule"; "ossified teaching methods"; "slogans petrify our thinking".
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Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc..
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Meaning 3
Cause to become stonelike or stiff or dazed and stunned from fright; "The horror petrified his feelings"; "Fear petrified her thinking".
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Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc..