英语词汇“petrify”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	petrify
释义	pet·ri·fy \ˈ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˌfī\ verb (-ed/-ing/-es) Etymology: Middle French petrifier, from petr- + -fier -fy *transitive verb* 1. : to convert into stone; specifically : to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness through the infiltration of water containing dissolved mineral matter 2. : to make hard, rigid, or inert like or as if like stone: a. : to make lifeless or inactive : deaden < slogans are apt to petrify a man's thinking — Saturday Review > < his independence had not petrified his sympathies — Times Literary Supplement > b. : to confound with fear, amazement, or awe : paralyze, stupefy < 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. : to become stone or a substance of stony hardness 2. : to become hard, rigid, or inert like or as if like stone < 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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