petrifying Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb cause to become stonelike or stiff or dazed and stunned
    petrify.
    • The horror petrified his feelings
    • Fear petrified her thinking
  2. verb change into stone
    petrify; lapidify.
    • the wood petrified with time
  3. verb make rigid and set into a conventional pattern
    rigidify; petrify; ossify.
    • rigidify the training schedule
    • ossified teaching methods
    • slogans petrify our thinking
  4. adjective satellite paralyzing with terror

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