petrify

1. v. t. To convert, as any animal or vegetable matter, into stone or stony substance. Source: opted

2. v. t. To make callous or obdurate; to stupefy; to paralyze; to transform; as by petrifaction; as, to petrify the heart. Young. Source: opted

3. v. i. To become stone, or of a stony hardness, as organic matter by calcareous deposits. Source: opted

4. v. i. Fig.: To become stony, callous, or obdurate. Source: opted

5. v. cause to become stonelike or stiff or dazed and stunned from fright Source: wordnet

6. v. change into stone Source: wordnet

7. v. make rigid and set into a conventional pattern Source: wordnet

8. 1. To convert, as any animal or vegetable matter, into stone or stony substance. A river that petrifies any sort of wood or leaves. Kirwan. 2. To make callous or obdurate; to stupefy; to paralyze; to transform; as by petrifaction; as, to petrify the heart. Young. "Petrifying accuracy." Sir W. Scott. And petrify a genius to a dunce. Pope. The poor, petrified journeyman, quite unconscious of what he was doing. De Quincey. A hideous fatalism, which ought, logically, to petrify your volition. G. Eliot. 1. To become stone, or of a stony hardness, as organic matter by calcareous deposits. 2. Fig.: To become stony, callous, or obdurate. Like Niobe we marble grow, And petrify with grief. Dryden. Source: webster

9. v:100 v. cause to become stonelike or stiff or dazed and stunned Source: ecdict

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