meaning of petrify

1. To convert, as any animal or vegetable matter, into stone or stony substance.
2.
To make callous or obdurate; to stupefy; to paralyze; to transform; as by petrifaction; as, to petrify the heart. Young.
3.
To become stone, or of a stony hardness, as organic matter by calcareous deposits.
4.
Fig. : To become stony, callous, or obdurate.
5.
cause to become stone-like or stiff or dazed and stunned; "The horror petrified his feelings"; "Fear petrified her ">thinking"


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