What is the meaning of petrified?

verb

  • Cause to become stonelike or stiff or dazed and stunned.
    • usage: "The horror petrified his feelings"; "Fear petrified her thinking"
  • Change into stone.
    • usage: "the wood petrified with time"
  • Make rigid and set into a conventional pattern.
    • usage: "rigidify the training schedule"; "ossified teaching methods"; "slogans petrify our thinking"
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