petrify

petrify is a 7-letter English word with 7 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To convert, as any animal or vegetable matter, into stone or stony substance. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 15 · 7 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To convert, as any animal or vegetable matter, into stone or stony substance.
2. transitive verb. To make callous or obdurate; to stupefy; to paralyze; to transform; as by petrifaction; as, to petrify the heart. Young.
3. intransitive verb. To become stone, or of a stony hardness, as organic matter by calcareous deposits.
4. intransitive verb. Fig.: To become stony, callous, or obdurate.
5. verb. cause to become stonelike or stiff or dazed and stunned

   "The horror petrified his feelings"

   "Fear petrified her thinking"

6. verb. make rigid and set into a conventional pattern

   "rigidify the training schedule"

   "ossified teaching methods"

   Synonyms: ossify, rigidify

7. verb. change into stone

   "the wood petrified with time"

   Synonyms: lapidify

Synonyms

ossify, rigidify, lapidify

Common word forms

petrified, petrifier, petrifies, petrifying

Words from these letters

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