petrify

Verb
  1. Cause to become stonelike or stiff or dazed and stunned from fright (synset 200192803)
    "The horror petrified his feelings"; "Fear petrified her thinking"
    is a type of: blunt, deaden - make less lively, intense, or vigorous; impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation
  2. Change into stone (synset 200508566)
    "the wood petrified with time"
    is a type of: fossilise, fossilize - convert to a fossil
    same as: lapidify
  3. Make rigid and set into a conventional pattern (synset 200419035)
    "rigidify the training schedule"; "ossified teaching methods"; "slogans petrify our thinking"
    is a type of: stiffen - make stiff or stiffer
    same as: ossify, rigidify

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