| 释义 |
Adjective: petrifying- Paralyzing with terror
Verb: petrify 'petru`fI- Cause to become stonelike or stiff or dazed and stunned
"The horror petrified his feelings"; "Fear petrified her thinking" - Change into stone
"the wood petrified with time"
- lapidify - Make rigid and set into a conventional pattern
"slogans petrify our thinking"
- rigidify, ossify
See also: alarming, petrifaction Type of: blunt, deaden, fossilise [Brit], fossilize, stiffen Encyclopedia: Petrify |