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Meaning of word petrify from English dictionary with examples, synonyms and antonyms.

petrify   verb

Meaning : Cause to become stonelike or stiff or dazed and stunned from fright.

Example : The horror petrified his feelings.
Fear petrified her thinking.

Meaning : Change into stone.

Example : The wood petrified with time.

Synonyms : lapidify

Meaning : Make rigid and set into a conventional pattern.

Example : Rigidify the training schedule.
Ossified teaching methods.
Slogans petrify our thinking.

Synonyms : ossify, rigidify

Petrify meaning in Telugu.