petrify

英 ['petrɪfaɪ] 美 ['petrɪfaɪ]

• vt. 使石化；使发呆
• vi. 石化

英英释义

Verb:

1. cause to become stonelike or stiff or dazed and stunned;

   "The horror petrified his feelings"
   "Fear petrified her thinking"
   

2. change into stone;

   "the wood petrified with time"
   

3. make rigid and set into a conventional pattern;

   "rigidify the training schedule"
   "ossified teaching methods"
   "slogans petrify our thinking"
   

经典引文

• Large barking dogs petrify me.

  出自： P. Theroux

近反义词

【近义词】

• frighten 使惊吓
• terrify 使害怕
• horrify 使恐惧
• harden (使)变硬
• shock 震惊
• solidify 变固体
• appall 使 ... 胆寒
• stun 使震惊
• ossify 骨化
• rigidify 固定
• scare 受惊吓
• alarm 警报
• fossilize 使成化石
• fix 使 ... 固定
• calcify 钙化
• set 放置
• stone 【U】石料
• become 变成
• lapidify 使变成石头