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单词 petrify
释义
Petrify
vverb.changecause to become stonelike or stiff or dazed and stunned from fright
Examples:
  • The horror petrified his feelings
  • Fear petrified her thinking
Hypernyms:blunt deaden
Inherited Hypernyms:petrifydeadenchange
Sentence Frame:Something ---s something
vverb.changechange into stone
Synset:lapidify
Examples:
  • the wood petrified with time
Derivationally Related Form:petrificationpetrifaction
Hypernyms:fossilise fossilize
Inherited Hypernyms:lapidifyfossilizeconvertchange
Sentence Frame:Something ---s something
vverb.changemake rigid and set into a conventional pattern
Synset:ossify rigidify
Examples:
  • rigidify the training schedule
  • ossified teaching methods
  • slogans petrify our thinking
Derivationally Related Form:rigidityossification
Hypernyms:stiffen
Inherited Hypernyms:rigidifystiffenchange
Sentence Frame:Something ---s something
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