Found 3 items, similar to Petrifying.
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: petrify membatu
English → English (WordNet) Definition: petrifying petrifying adj : paralyzing with terror
English → English (gcide) Definition: Petrifying 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]