petrify
verbEtymology
From Middle French pétrifier, from Medieval Latin petrificāre, from Latin petra (“rock”), from Ancient Greek πέτρα (pétra, “rock”) + -ficāre, from facere (“do, make”), equivalent to petro- + -ify.
- derived from πέτρα
- derived from petra
- derived from petrificāre
- derived from pétrifier
Definitions
To turn to stone
To turn to stone: to harden organic matter by permeating with water and depositing dissolved minerals.
- a river that petrifies any sort of wood or leaves
To produce rigidity akin to stone.
To immobilize with fright.
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To become stone, or of a stony hardness, as organic matter by calcareous deposits.
To become stony, callous, or obdurate.
- Like Niobe we marble grow, / And petrify with grief.
- Hopes, feelings, and passion, petrify one after another; the crust of experience soon hardens over the hidden past; and who, looking on the levelled and subdued exterior, could dream of the wreck and ravage that lies below?
To make callous or obdurate
To make callous or obdurate; to stupefy; to paralyze; to transform; as by petrification.
- petrify a genius to a dunce
- A hideous fatalism, which ought, logically, to petrify your volition.
The neighborhood
- neighborpetrifaction
- neighborcalcify
- neighbormineralize
- neighborossify
- neighborpermineralize
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for petrify. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA