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Examples of petrify
petrify
The FDA's warnings are the latest attempt by a government to nauseate and petrify its citizenry.
From the economist.com
Shrewdly anticipating the volcanic cloud that was shortly to petrify Europe, we took the Eurostar.
From the nzherald.co.nz
Let Christ be the Rock and do not petrify into a monolith.
From the evangelicaloutpost.com
Dustin Hoffman looks so bored he's beginning to petrify.
From the hepburnadvocate.com.au
Belarus now looks doomed to petrify in its sad, regressive state, unless Russia can be persuaded to do something about it.
From the economist.com
His novels petrify somewhat upon publication and he needs to write about things out of his usual comfort zone.
From the guardian.co.uk
Broken worms have a tendency to putrefy or petrify.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Stay static, and they petrify.
From the businessweek.com
Convincing evocations of blue-collar Saturday nights in Queens or of Bogside palaver in Londonderry stretch out until insights petrify into caricature.
From the time.com
- Cause to become stonelike or stiff or dazed and stunned; "The horror petrified his feelings"; "Fear petrified her thinking"
- Lapidify: change into stone; "the wood petrified with time"
- Rigidify: make rigid and set into a conventional pattern; "rigidify the training schedule"; "ossified teaching methods"; "slogans petrify our thinking"
- (petrifying) paralyzing with terror
- (petrification) petrifaction: the process of turning some plant material into stone by infiltration with water carrying mineral particles without changing the original shape
- (Petrified (song)) The Rising Tied is the debut album of hip hop ensemble Fort Minor, the side project by Linkin Park rapper Mike Shinoda. The album was released on November 22, 2005. ...
- To harden organic matter by permeating with water and depositing dissolved minerals; To produce rigidness akin to stone; To immobilize with fright
- (petrification) the process of replacing the organic residues of plants (and animals) with insoluble salts, the original shape and topography being retained
- (petrified) Extremely afraid
