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petrified 音标拼音: [p'ɛtrəf ,ɑɪd] adj. 心胆俱裂 心胆俱裂 petrified \ petrified\ adj. 1. Converted into stone. [ WordNet 1. 5 PJC] 2. Converted into a mineral; as, petrified wood. Syn: mineralized. [ WordNet 1. 5] 3. Same as { terrified}; as, petrified by the sight of the approaching bear. Syn: panicky, panic- stricken, panic- struck, terrified, frightened. [ WordNet 1. 5] 4. rendered unable to act due to intense fear. petrified with fear Syn: frozen. [ PJC] 5. Rendered lifeless or inactive; as, an imagination petrified by habitual television viewing. Syn: frozen; ossified. [ PJC]
Petrify \ Pet" ri* fy\ ( p[ e^] t" r[ i^]* f[ imac]), v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Petrified}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Petrifying}.] [ L. petra rock, Gr. pe` tra ( akin to pe` tros 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; as, petrified wood. [ 1913 Webster] A river that petrifies any sort of wood or leaves. -- Kirwan. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To make callous or obdurate; 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] A hideous fatalism, which ought, logically, to petrify your volition. -- G. Eliot. [ 1913 Webster] 3. To paralyze, especially with fear; to stupefy; as, she was petrified by the sight of the bear in her tent. [ PJC] The poor, petrified journeyman, quite unconscious of what he was doing. -- De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster] 111 Moby Thesaurus words for " petrified": Gothic, Victorian, adamant, adamantine, afraid, aghast, alabastrine, antediluvian, antiquated, antique, appalled, archaic, asbestine, ashen, astonished, astounded, awed, awestricken, awestruck, backed, benumbed, blanched, calcified, callous, calloused, case- hardened, classical, confounded, cowed, crusted, crusty, crystallized, deadly pale, dumbfounded, dumbstruck, flabbergasted, flintlike, flinty, fossil, fossilized, frightened, frozen, granitelike, granitic, granulated, graphitic, gray with fear, grown old, hardened, hornified, horrified, horror- struck, incrusted, indurate, indurated, inorganic, intimidated, lapidified, lithic, marblelike, medieval, micaceous, mid- Victorian, mineral, numbed, of other times, old- world, ossified, pale as death, pallid, panic- stricken, paralyzed, petrogenic, reinforced, rigidified, rock, scared stiff, scared to death, sclerotic, set, shocked, silicic, slaty, solidified, speechless, steeled, stiffened, stone, strengthened, stunned, stupefied, sulfuric, sulfurous, superannuated, terrified, terror- crazed, terror- haunted, terror- ridden, terror- riven, terror- shaken, terror- smitten, terror- stricken, terror- struck, terror- troubled, thunderstruck, toughened, undone, unmanned, unnerved, unstrung, vitrified
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