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Meaning of petrify


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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  petrify
      v 1: cause to become stonelike 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}, {petrify}]
      3: make rigid and set into a conventional pattern; "rigidify the
         training schedule"; "ossified teaching methods"; "slogans
         petrify our thinking" [syn: {rigidify}, {ossify}, {petrify}]


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