Found 3 items, similar to petrify.
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: petrify membatu
English → English (WordNet) Definition: petrify petrify v 1: cause to become stone-like or stiff or dazed and stunned; “The horror petrified his feelings”; “Fear petrified her thinking” 2: change into stone; “the wood petrified with time” [syn: lapidify] 3: make rigid and set into a conventional pattern; “rigidify the training schedule”; “ossified teaching methods”; “slogans petrify our thinking” [syn: rigidify, ossify] [also: petrified]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Petrify Petrify \Pet"ri*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Petrified; p. pr. & vb. n. Petrifying.] [L. petra rock, Gr. ? (akin to ? a stone) + -fy: cf. F. p['e]trifier. Cf. Parrot, Petrel, Pier.] 1. To convert, as any animal or vegetable matter, into stone or stony substance. [1913 Webster] A river that petrifies any sort of wood or leaves. --Kirwan. [1913 Webster] 2. To make callous or obdurate; to stupefy; to paralyze; to transform; as by petrifaction; as, to petrify the heart. Young. “Petrifying accuracy.” --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster] And petrify a genius to a dunce. --Pope. [1913 Webster] The poor, petrified journeyman, quite unconscious of what he was doing. --De Quincey. [1913 Webster] A hideous fatalism, which ought, logically, to petrify your volition. --G. Eliot. [1913 Webster] Petrify \Pet"ri*fy\, v. i. 1. To become stone, or of a stony hardness, as organic matter by calcareous deposits. [1913 Webster] 2. Fig.: To become stony, callous, or obdurate. [1913 Webster] Like Niobe we marble grow, And petrify with grief. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]