0 to frighten someone a lot, especially so that they are unable to move or speak:
1 If dead things petrify, they change to a substance like stone over a long period of time.
In some sense, the most vivid element is that of the voice which is found to be, as if petrified, turned into a statue.
Each student exhibited their personal degree of fear, nervousness, and skepticism, and some were petrified to the point of speechlessness.
The photograph has often been aligned with notions of death, as it may resemble an actuality fixed, petrified, frozen.
The statement of considerate death from a pack of coyotes petrified everyone.
The prospect of an early election petrifies them, and the reasons are there for all to see.
I believe that would be extremely bad and very petrifying to the whole structure and growth of the medium as we see it.
We are in danger of petrifying a number of commercial entities, and surely this can be no good thing.
The great danger is standardisation with its petrifying tendencies, which stamp out initia- tive.
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