'Petrified' definitions:
Definition of 'Petrified'
From: GCIDE
- Petrify \Pet"ri*fy\ (p[e^]t"r[i^]*f[imac]), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Petrified; p. pr. & vb. n. Petrifying.] [L. petra rock, Gr. pe`tra (akin to pe`tros a stone) + -fy: cf. F. p['e]trifier. Cf. Parrot, Petrel, Pier.]
- 1. To convert, as any animal or vegetable matter, into stone or stony substance; as, petrified wood. [1913 Webster]
- A river that petrifies any sort of wood or leaves. --Kirwan. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To make callous or obdurate; to transform, as by petrifaction; as, to petrify the heart. Young. "Petrifying accuracy." --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]
- And petrify a genius to a dunce. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- A hideous fatalism, which ought, logically, to petrify your volition. --G. Eliot. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'petrified'
From: GCIDE
- petrified \petrified\ adj.
- 1. Converted into stone. [WordNet 1.5 +PJC]
- 2. Converted into a mineral; as, petrified wood.
- Syn: mineralized. [WordNet 1.5]
- 3. Same as terrified; as, petrified by the sight of the approaching bear.
- Syn: panicky, panic-stricken, panic-struck, terrified, frightened. [WordNet 1.5]
- 4. rendered unable to act due to intense fear. petrified with fear
- Syn: frozen. [PJC]
- 5. Rendered lifeless or inactive; as, an imagination petrified by habitual television viewing.
- Syn: frozen; ossified. [PJC]
Synonyms of 'petrified'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- adamant,
- adamantine,
- afraid,
- aghast,
- alabastrine,
- antediluvian,
- antiquated,
- antique,
- appalled,
- archaic,
- asbestine,
- ashen,
- astonished,
- astounded,
- awed,
- awestricken,
- awestruck,
- backed,
- benumbed,
- blanched,
- calcified,
- callous,
- calloused,
- case-hardened,
- classical,
- confounded,
- cowed,
- crusted,
- crusty,
- crystallized,
- deadly pale,
- dumbfounded,
- dumbstruck,
- flabbergasted,
- flintlike,
- flinty,
- fossil,
- fossilized,
- frightened,
- frozen,
- Gothic,
- granitelike,
- granitic,
- granulated,
- graphitic,
- gray with fear,
- grown old,
- hardened,
- hornified,
- horrified,
- horror-struck,
- incrusted,
- indurate,
- indurated,
- inorganic,
- intimidated,
- lapidified,
- lithic,
- marblelike,
- medieval,
- micaceous,
- mid-Victorian,
- mineral,
- numbed,
- of other times,
- old-world,
- ossified,
- pale as death,
- pallid,
- panic-stricken,
- paralyzed,
- petrogenic,
- reinforced,
- rigidified,
- rock,
- scared stiff,
- scared to death,
- sclerotic,
- set,
- shocked,
- silicic,
- slaty,
- solidified,
- speechless,
- steeled,
- stiffened,
- stone,
- strengthened,
- stunned,
- stupefied,
- sulfuric,
- sulfurous,
- superannuated,
- terrified,
- terror-crazed,
- terror-haunted,
- terror-ridden,
- terror-riven,
- terror-shaken,
- terror-smitten,
- terror-stricken,
- terror-struck,
- terror-troubled,
- thunderstruck,
- toughened,
- undone,
- unmanned,
- unnerved,
- unstrung,
- Victorian,
- vitrified