petrify 音标拼音: [p'ɛtrəf
, ɑɪ]
v . 使石化;使冷酷;使吓呆
使石化;使冷酷;使吓呆
petrify v 1 :
cause to become stonelike or stiff or dazed and stunned ;
"
The horror petrified his feelings "; "
Fear petrified her thinking "
2 :
change into stone ; "
the wood petrified with time " [
synonym :
{
lapidify }, {
petrify }]
3 :
make rigid and set into a conventional pattern ; "
rigidify the training schedule "; "
ossified teaching methods "; "
slogans petrify our thinking " [
synonym : {
rigidify }, {
ossify }, {
petrify }]
Petrify \
Pet "
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v .
t . [
imp . &
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{
Petrified };
p .
pr . &
vb .
n . {
Petrifying }.] [
L .
petra rock ,
Gr .
pe `
tra (
akin to pe `
tros a stone ) -
fy :
cf .
F .
p ['
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trifier .
Cf . {
Parrot }, {
Petrel }, {
Pier }.]
1 .
To convert ,
as any animal or vegetable matter ,
into stone or stony substance ;
as ,
petrified wood .
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A river that petrifies any sort of wood or leaves .
--
Kirwan .
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2 .
To make callous or obdurate ;
to transform ,
as by petrifaction ;
as ,
to petrify the heart .
Young . "
Petrifying accuracy ." --
Sir W .
Scott .
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And petrify a genius to a dunce . --
Pope .
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A hideous fatalism ,
which ought ,
logically ,
to petrify your volition . --
G .
Eliot .
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3 .
To paralyze ,
especially with fear ;
to stupefy ;
as ,
she was petrified by the sight of the bear in her tent .
[
PJC ]
The poor ,
petrified journeyman ,
quite unconscious of what he was doing . --
De Quincey .
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1913 Webster ]
Petrify \
Pet "
ri *
fy \,
v .
i .
1 .
To become stone ,
or of a stony hardness ,
as organic matter by calcareous deposits .
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2 .
Fig .:
To become stony ,
callous ,
or obdurate .
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Like Niobe we marble grow ,
And petrify with grief . --
Dryden .
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62 Moby Thesaurus words for "
petrify ":
alarm ,
amaze ,
anneal ,
appall ,
astonish ,
astound ,
awe ,
awestrike ,
bedaze ,
bedazzle ,
bemuse ,
benumb ,
bewilder ,
boggle ,
bowl down ,
bowl over ,
calcify ,
callous ,
case harden ,
confound ,
cornify ,
crystallize ,
daze ,
dazzle ,
disconcert ,
dismay ,
dumbfound ,
dumbfounder ,
firm ,
flabbergast ,
fossilize ,
freeze ,
frighten ,
harden ,
horrify ,
indurate ,
lapidify ,
lithify ,
numb ,
ossify ,
overwhelm ,
paralyze ,
perplex ,
scare ,
scare stiff ,
scare to death ,
shock ,
stagger ,
startle ,
steel ,
strike dead ,
strike dumb ,
strike terror into ,
strike with wonder ,
stun ,
stupefy ,
surprise ,
temper ,
terrify ,
toughen ,
turn to stone ,
vitrify
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