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Petrify   /pˈɛtrəfˌaɪ/   Listen
Petrify

verb
(past & past part. petrified; pres. part. petrifying)
1.
Cause to become stonelike or stiff or dazed and stunned.  "Fear petrified her thinking"
2.
Change into stone.  Synonym: lapidify.
3.
Make rigid and set into a conventional pattern.  Synonyms: ossify, rigidify.  "Ossified teaching methods" , "Slogans petrify our thinking"





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Words linked to "Petrify" :   deaden, petrification, rigidify, blunt, petrifaction, fossilise, stiffen, fossilize


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