Dictionary Entry
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
- 1transitive verb
To convert, as any animal or vegetable matter, into stone or stony substance.
- 2transitive verb
To make callous or obdurate; to stupefy; to paralyze; to transform; as by petrifaction; as, to petrify the heart. Young.
- 3intransitive verb
To become stone, or of a stony hardness, as organic matter by calcareous deposits.
- 4intransitive verb
Fig.: To become stony, callous, or obdurate.
- 5verb
cause to become stonelike or stiff or dazed and stunned
"The horror petrified his feelings"
"Fear petrified her thinking"
- 6verb
make rigid and set into a conventional pattern
"rigidify the training schedule"
"ossified teaching methods"
- 7verb
change into stone
"the wood petrified with time"
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