Associations to the word «Petrify»

PETRIFY, verb. To harden organic matter by permeating with water and depositing dissolved minerals.

PETRIFY, verb. To produce rigidity akin to stone.

PETRIFY, verb. To immobilize with fright.

PETRIFY, verb. (intransitive) To become stone, or of a stony hardness, as organic matter by calcareous deposits.

PETRIFY, verb. (intransitive) (figurative) To become stony, callous, or obdurate.

PETRIFY, verb. (transitive) (figurative) To make callous or obdurate; to stupefy; to paralyze; to transform; as by petrification.

PETRIFY, verb. Cause to become stonelike or stiff or dazed and stunned; "The horror petrified his feelings"; "Fear petrified her thinking".

PETRIFY, verb. Change into stone; "the wood petrified with time".

PETRIFY, verb. Make rigid and set into a conventional pattern; "rigidify the training schedule"; "ossified teaching methods"; "slogans petrify our thinking".