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English to English verb
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cause to become stonelike or stiff or dazed and stunned |  | Example: The horror petrified his feelings
Fear petrified her thinking
source: wordnet30
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change into stone | | Example: the wood petrified with time
source: wordnet30
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make rigid and set into a conventional pattern | | Example: rigidify the training schedule
ossified teaching methods
slogans petrify our thinking
source: wordnet30
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To convert, as any animal or vegetable matter, into stone or stony substance. | | source: webster1913
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To become stone, or of a stony hardness, as organic matter by calcareous deposits. | | source: webster1913
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