Petrify | Mean of petrify in English Dictionary
/ˈpɛtrəˌfaɪ/
- Verb
- to make (someone) very afraid
- It petrifies [=terrifies] me to think of how close we came to dying.
- to slowly change (something, such as wood) into stone or a substance like stone over a very long period of time
- the processes that petrify wood
- The dead tree petrified into stone.
