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English to English verb
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cause to become stonelike or stiff or dazed and stunned |
• The horror petrified his feelings
• Fear petrified her thinking
source: wordnet30 Example:
• the wood petrified with time
source: wordnet30
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make rigid and set into a conventional pattern |
• rigidify the training schedule
• ossified teaching methods
• slogans petrify our thinking
source: wordnet30
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To convert, as any animal or vegetable matter, into stone or stony substance. | source: webster1913
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To become stone, or of a stony hardness, as organic matter by calcareous deposits. | source: webster1913
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