petrify
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verb- 1.
(transitive)To turn to stone: to harden organic matter by permeating with water and depositing dissolved minerals.
- 2.
To produce rigidity akin to stone.
- 3.
To immobilize with fright.
Đồng nghĩa: alarm, affright, appall, dismay, fray, frighten, grill, give someone the shits, harrow, horrify, make someone's blood run cold, mortify, petrify, scare, scare straight, scare the bejeebers out of, scare the hell out of, scare the pants off of, scare the shit out of, terrorize, terrify, spook
- 4.
(intransitive)To become stone, or of a stony hardness, as organic matter by calcareous deposits.
- 5.
(figuratively, intransitive)(intransitive, figurative) To become stony, callous, or obdurate.
- 6.
(figuratively, transitive)(transitive, figurative) To make callous or obdurate; to stupefy; to paralyze; to transform; as by petrification.
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From Middle French pétrifier, from petrificāre, from Latin petra (rock), from Ancient Greek πέτρα (rock) + -ficāre, from facere (do, make), equivalent to petro ify.