Petrified

Quick meaning: Petrified is an adjective meaning Having undergone the process of petrification (transformation into a stony substance); turned to stone.

Meaning

Having undergone the process of petrification (transformation into a stony substance); turned to stone.

More Meanings

1. Extremely afraid.
2. simple past and past participle of petrify

Example Sentences

On Yule-eve alone can petrified Giants receive back their life for the space of seven hours, if one of their race embraces them, and is, at the same time, willing to sacrifice a hundred years of their own life.

Entering Avebury from any direction is like stepping back into the past. Before the centre of the village is reached, the road passes through an immense circle of brooding stones which stand like petrified ghosts of an age about which little is known.

Synonyms for petrified

Depending on context, synonyms include afraid, hard, numb, mineralized, mineral.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include afraid, hard, numb, mineralized, mineral, scared.

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