Petrified

6 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Petrify \Pet"ri*fy\ (p[e^]t"r[i^]*f[imac]), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
     {Petrified}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Petrifying}.] [L. petra rock,
     Gr. pe`tra (akin to pe`tros a stone) + -fy: cf. F.
     p['e]trifier. Cf. {Parrot}, {Petrel}, {Pier}.]
     1. To convert, as any animal or vegetable matter, into stone
        or stony substance; as, petrified wood.


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              A river that petrifies any sort of wood or leaves.
                                                    --Kirwan.
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     2. To make callous or obdurate; to transform, as by
        petrifaction; as, to petrify the heart. Young. "Petrifying
        accuracy." --Sir W. Scott.
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              And petrify a genius to a dunce.      --Pope.
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              A hideous fatalism, which ought, logically, to
              petrify your volition.                --G. Eliot.
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     3. To paralyze, especially with fear; to stupefy; as, she was
        petrified by the sight of the bear in her tent.
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              The poor, petrified journeyman, quite unconscious of
              what he was doing.                    --De Quincey.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  petrified \petrified\ adj.
     1. Converted into stone.
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     2. Converted into a mineral; as, petrified wood.
  
     Syn: mineralized.
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     3. Same as {terrified}; as, petrified by the sight of the
        approaching bear.
  
     Syn: panicky, panic-stricken, panic-struck, terrified,
          frightened.
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     4. rendered unable to act due to intense fear. petrified with
        fear
  
     Syn: frozen.
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     5. Rendered lifeless or inactive; as, an imagination
        petrified by habitual television viewing.
  
     Syn: frozen; ossified.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  petrify
       v 1: cause to become stone-like or stiff or dazed and stunned;
            "The horror petrified his feelings"; "Fear petrified her
            thinking"
       2: change into stone; "the wood petrified with time" [syn: {lapidify}]
       3: make rigid and set into a conventional pattern; "rigidify
          the training schedule"; "ossified teaching methods";
          "slogans petrify our thinking" [syn: {rigidify}, {ossify}]
       [also: {petrified}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  petrified
       adj 1: converted into stone
       2: converted into a mineral; "petrified wood" [syn: {mineralized}]
       3: so frightened as to be unable to move; stunned or paralyzed
          with terror; "petrified with fear"; "she was petrified by
          the eerie sound"; "too numb with fear to move" [syn: {numb}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  petrified
       See {petrify}

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  111 Moby Thesaurus words for "petrified":
     Gothic, Victorian, adamant, adamantine, afraid, aghast,
     alabastrine, antediluvian, antiquated, antique, appalled, archaic,
     asbestine, ashen, astonished, astounded, awed, awestricken,
     awestruck, backed, benumbed, blanched, calcified, callous,
     calloused, case-hardened, classical, confounded, cowed, crusted,
     crusty, crystallized, deadly pale, dumbfounded, dumbstruck,
     flabbergasted, flintlike, flinty, fossil, fossilized, frightened,
     frozen, granitelike, granitic, granulated, graphitic,
     gray with fear, grown old, hardened, hornified, horrified,
     horror-struck, incrusted, indurate, indurated, inorganic,
     intimidated, lapidified, lithic, marblelike, medieval, micaceous,
     mid-Victorian, mineral, numbed, of other times, old-world,
     ossified, pale as death, pallid, panic-stricken, paralyzed,
     petrogenic, reinforced, rigidified, rock, scared stiff,
     scared to death, sclerotic, set, shocked, silicic, slaty,
     solidified, speechless, steeled, stiffened, stone, strengthened,
     stunned, stupefied, sulfuric, sulfurous, superannuated, terrified,
     terror-crazed, terror-haunted, terror-ridden, terror-riven,
     terror-shaken, terror-smitten, terror-stricken, terror-struck,
     terror-troubled, thunderstruck, toughened, undone, unmanned,
     unnerved, unstrung, vitrified