petrify

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petrify Definition

• (v) cause to become stone-like or stiff or dazed and stunned; "The horror petrified his feelings"; "Fear petrified her thinking"
• (v) change into stone; "the wood petrified with time"
• (v) make rigid and set into a conventional pattern; "rigidify the training schedule"; "ossified teaching methods"; "slogans petrify our thinking"

petrify Synonyms

• lapidify
• ossify
• petrify
• rigidify