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petrify 中文解釋 wordnet sense Collocation Usage Collins Definition
Verb
/ˈpetrəˌfī/,
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petrifying, present participle; petrified, past participle; petrifies, 3rd person singular present; petrified, past tense;
  1. Make (someone) so frightened that they are unable to move or think
    • - his icy controlled quietness petrified her
  2. Change (organic matter) into a stony concretion by encrusting or replacing its original substance with a calcareous, siliceous, or other mineral deposit

  3. (of organic matter) Become converted into stone or a stony substance in such a way

  4. Deprive or become deprived of vitality or the capacity for change
    • - death merely petrifies things for those who go on living
    • - the inner life of the parties petrified
  1. cause to become stonelike or stiff or dazed and stunned; "The horror petrified his feelings"; "Fear petrified her thinking"
  2. lapidify: change into stone; "the wood petrified with time"
  3. rigidify: make rigid and set into a conventional pattern; "rigidify the training schedule"; "ossified teaching methods"; "slogans petrify our thinking"
  4. (petrifying) paralyzing with terror
  5. (petrification) petrifaction: the process of turning some plant material into stone by infiltration with water carrying mineral particles without changing the original shape
  6. (Petrified (song)) The Rising Tied is the debut album of hip hop ensemble Fort Minor, the side project by Linkin Park rapper Mike Shinoda. The album was released on November 22, 2005. ...
  7. To harden organic matter by permeating with water and depositing dissolved minerals; To produce rigidness akin to stone; To immobilize with fright
  8. (petrification) the process of replacing the organic residues of plants (and animals) with insoluble salts, the original shape and topography being retained
  9. (petrified) Extremely afraid
  10. (petrification) processes, including mineralization, permineralization, and inclusion, which change an object, usually organic, into stone or a similar mineral structure
  11. (Petrified) This is an organic substance which has become stone. Organic substances such as shells, stones, and wood embedded in sediments become converted into stone by the gradual replacement of their tissues, particle by particle, with corresponding amounts of infiltrated mineral matter.
  12. (Petrified) confounded with fear, amazement, or awe.
  13. (petrified) A term used by geologists to describe plant material that has transformed into rock by permineralization.
  14. to convert organic material into stone through infiltration of water and mineral deposits.