petrify

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verb

1. cause to become stonelike or stiff or dazed and stunned (Freq. 1)
- The horror petrified his feelings
- Fear petrified her thinking
• Hypernyms:
deaden, blunt
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s something
2. make rigid and set into a conventional pattern
- rigidify the training schedule
- ossified teaching methods
- slogans petrify our thinking
• Syn:
rigidify, ossify
• Derivationally related forms:
ossification (for: ossify), rigidity (for: rigidify)
• Hypernyms:
stiffen
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s something
3. change into stone
- the wood petrified with time
• Syn:
lapidify
• Derivationally related forms:
petrifaction, petrification
• Hypernyms:
fossilize, fossilise
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s something

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  rigidify, ossify, lapidify