petrified
Meaning of petrified
adjective
Extremely afraid.
verb- To harden organic matter by permeating with water and depositing dissolved minerals.
- To produce rigidity akin to stone.
- To immobilize with fright.
- To become stone, or of a stony hardness, as organic matter by calcareous deposits.
- To become stony, callous, or obdurate.
- To make callous or obdurate; to stupefy; to paralyze; to transform; as by petrification.
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Hyphenation of petrified
pet-ri-fied
- It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
- petrified is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
petrified synonyms
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Words that rhyme with petrified
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