petrifiedadjective
uk/ˈpet.rə.faɪd/us/ˈpet.rə.faɪd/petrified adjective (FRIGHTENED)
B2 extremely frightened:
I stood petrified as the most enormous dog I've ever seen came bounding up to me.
She's petrified of being on her own in the house at night.
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Afraid
- afraid
- be like a deer/rabbit caught in the headlights idiom
- bottle
- bottle out
- cower
- fear for sb/sth
- fearfully
- horror-struck
- in terror of your life idiom
- intimidated
- panic
- panic-stricken
- panicky
- pants
- quake
- terrified
- terror
- terror-stricken
- unconfident
- worst
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petrified adjective (LIKE STONE)
having changed to a substance like stone:
a petrified tree/shell
literary used to describe something that has stopped changing and developing, and often belongs to the past
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Hard and firm
- (as) stiff/straight as a ramrod idiom
- adamantine
- cast iron
- congeal
- crisp
- crispy
- crunchy
- fossilized
- hard
- harden
- horny
- ossification
- ossify
- ramrod
- rigid
- solid
- stiff
- stiffness
- temper
- unyielding
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Old or old-fashioned