Origin: Latin
suffix -ify
Petrify has 4 different meanings across 1 category:
Verb
Verb
1
cause to become stonelike or stiff or dazed and stunned from fright
"The horror petrified his feelings"
"Fear petrified her thinking"
2
change into stone
"the wood petrified with time"
3
make rigid and set into a conventional pattern
"rigidify the training schedule"
"ossified teaching methods"
"slogans petrify our thinking"
4
To harden organic matter by permeating with water and depositing dissolved minerals.
Example Sentences
"The horror petrified his feelings"
verb
"Fear petrified her thinking"
verb
"the wood petrified with time"
verb
"rigidify the training schedule"
verb
"ossified teaching methods"
verb
"slogans petrify our thinking"
verb
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Broader Terms (hypernyms)