petrified

adjective

  1. 1

    Extremely afraid.

verb

  1. 1

    To harden organic matter by permeating with water and depositing dissolved minerals.

  2. 2

    To produce rigidity akin to stone.

  3. 3

    To immobilize with fright.

  4. 4

    To become stone, or of a stony hardness, as organic matter by calcareous deposits.

  5. 5

    To become stony, callous, or obdurate.

  6. 6

    To make callous or obdurate; to stupefy; to paralyze; to transform; as by petrification.

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