The meaning of Petrifying

adjective

Filled with horror or shock.

Usage examples:

She winced, aghast at his cruelty

adjective

Shocked or surprised in an unpleasant way

Usage examples:

Workers and union officials were aghast at the layoffs.

adjective

Greatly dismayed or horrified.

Usage examples:

Alison looked at me, appalled

verb

Greatly dismay or horrify.

Usage examples:

Bankers are appalled at the economic incompetence of some ministers

adjective

Having strong feelings of shock or disapproval

Usage examples:

An appalled silence/fascination, i am absolutely appalled by/at the state of our cities.

adjective

Deprived of physical or emotional feeling.

Usage examples:

A hoarse shout cut through his benumbed senses

verb

Deprive of physical or emotional feeling.

adjective

Unable to feel because of cold, shock, etc.

Usage examples:

A face benumbed with cold

adjective

Preserved to become a fossil.

Usage examples:

A fossilized bone

verb

Preserve (an animal or plant) so that it becomes a fossil.

Usage examples:

The hard parts of the body are readily fossilized

adjective

Having become a fossil (= something preserved in rock for a very long period)

Usage examples:

Fossilized bones, the fossilized remains of early humans, the system is extremely hierarchical and …

verb

(with reference to a liquid) turn or be turned into ice or another solid as a result of extreme cold.

Usage examples:

In the winter the milk froze

noun

An act of holding or being held at a fixed level or in a fixed state.

Usage examples:

Workers faced a pay freeze

noun

A period of frost or very cold weather.

Usage examples:

The big freeze surprised the weathermen

adjective

Filled with horror; extremely shocked.

Usage examples:

The horrified spectators

verb

Fill with horror; shock greatly.

Usage examples:

They were horrified by the very idea

adjective

Very shocked

Usage examples:

He looked horrified when i told him., we were horrified at/by the size of the bill., i was horrifie…

adjective

Extremely shocked and frightened

Usage examples:

They watched, horror-struck, as the car came off the road.

adjective

Extremely shocked and frightened

Usage examples:

They watched, horror-struck, as the car came off the road.

verb

Change (organic matter) into a stony substance; petrify.

Usage examples:

A gorgon whose visage lapidifies those who confront her directly

adjective

Having turned into bone or bony tissue.

Usage examples:

Ossified cartilage

verb

Turn into bone or bony tissue.

Usage examples:

These tracheal cartilages may ossify

adjective

(of habits or ideas) fixed and unable to change

Usage examples:

The institutions of government have become more ossified and inflexible., he tried to push liberali…

adjective

(of a person or part of the body) partly or wholly incapable of movement; disabled.

Usage examples:

He became partially paralysed

verb

Cause (a person or part of the body) to become partly or wholly incapable of movement.

Usage examples:

Mrs burrows had been paralysed by a stroke

adjective

Unable to move or act

Usage examples:

The accident left her paralysed from the waist down., the government seems paralysed by/with indeci…

adjective

So shocked that one is temporarily unable to react; astonished.

Usage examples:

A silent, stunned crowd

verb

Knock unconscious or into a dazed or semi-conscious state.

Usage examples:

The man was stunned by a blow to the head

verb

Make (someone) unable to think or feel properly.

Usage examples:

The offence of administering drugs to a woman with intent to stupefy her

adjective

Unable to think clearly, usually because someone is extremely tired or bored, or has taken drugs

Usage examples:

Stupefied by tiredness, she just sat in front of the fire., as they slept in a stupefied state, som…

verb

Cause to feel extreme fear.

Usage examples:

The thought terrifies me

adjective

Extremely frightened

verb

Cause (someone) to become motionless with horror, wonder, or astonishment.

Usage examples:

He was transfixed by the pain in her face