petrify

Definition of petrify

Verbs

cause to become stonelike or stiff or dazed and stunned
Type of:
blunt, deaden
make less lively, intense, or vigorous; impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation
change into stone
Synonyms:
lapidify
Type of:
fossilise, fossilize
convert to a fossil
make rigid and set into a conventional pattern
"slogans petrify our thinking"
Synonyms:
ossify, rigidify
Type of:
stiffen
make stiff or stiffer

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Words that contain petrify

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