单词 | petrify |
释义 | pet·ri·fy transitive verb 1. 2. a. < slogans are apt to petrify a man's thinking — Saturday Review > < his independence had not petrified his sympathies — Times Literary Supplement > b. < the original purpose of the aboriginal objects was to petrify uninitiated members of the tribe — T.H.Robsjohn-Gibbings > < is petrified of talking in public — Alan Frank > intransitive verb 1. 2. < principles and rules … have petrified with the accumulated weight of precedent on precedent — B.N.Cardozo > < her face had petrified into the fearsome pioneer resolution of unremitting housewifery — Nigel Dennis > Synonyms: see daze |
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