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petrify
English
Etymology
From Middle French pétrifier, from Medieval Latin petrificare, from Latin petra (“rock”) + -ficare from facere (“do, make”).
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /?p?.t???fa?/
Verb
petrify (third-person singular simple present petrifies, present participle petrifying, simple past and past participle petrified)
- To harden organic matter by permeating with water and depositing dissolved minerals.
- 1799, Richard Kirwan, Geological Essays
- a river that petrifies any sort of wood or leaves
- 1799, Richard Kirwan, Geological Essays
- To produce rigidity akin to stone.
- To immobilize with fright.
- (intransitive) To become stone, or of a stony hardness, as organic matter by calcareous deposits.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To become stony, callous, or obdurate.
- 1685, John Dryden, Threnodia Augustalis
- Like Niobe we marble grow, / And petrify with grief.
- 1685, John Dryden, Threnodia Augustalis
- (transitive, figuratively) To make callous or obdurate; to stupefy; to paralyze; to transform; as by petrification.
- 1874, George Eliot, letter to Mrs. Ponsonby
- A hideous fatalism, which ought, logically, to petrify your volition.
- 1874, George Eliot, letter to Mrs. Ponsonby
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:frighten
Related terms
- petrifaction
Translations
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stonify
English
Etymology
stone +? -ify
Verb
stonify (third-person singular simple present stonifies, present participle stonifying, simple past and past participle stonified)
- (obsolete) To petrify (as a mineral, to harden).
- (dated) To become stone, to turn to stone.
- (rare) To immobilize.
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