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petrify
verb
Cause to become stonelike or stiff or dazed and stunned from fright
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ˈpɛ.tɹəˌfaɪ
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verb
Cause to become stonelike or stiff or dazed and stunned from fright
“The horror petrified his feelings”
verb
Make rigid and set into a conventional pattern
“Rigidify the training schedule”
verb
Change into stone
“The wood petrified with time”
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The horror petrified his feelings
Fear petrified her thinking
Rigidify the training schedule
Ossified teaching methods
Slogans petrify our thinking
The wood petrified with time
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