petrified

[pet·ri·fy]

If you scare someone so much they can't move, you petrify them. Petrify is to make something like a stone or to literally turn to stone.

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Adjective S.
so frightened as to be unable to move; stunned or paralyzed with terror; "petrified with fear"; "she was petrified by the eerie sound"; "too numb with fear to move"

Adjective S.
converted into a mineral; "petrified wood"

Adjective S.
converted into stone

imp. & p. p.
of Petrify

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Usage Examples

In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.

Four hours of prosthetics every morning, the jowls and the nose, and it was very hot so they're having to attend to it all day, and you're still petrified of so many things, such as, can I speak properly? Hitchcock never quite lost those East End vowels, even though he had the softened California consonants.

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Other Usage Examples

A film is a petrified fountain of thought.

Nature is a petrified magic city.

I am as frustrated with society as a pyromaniac in a petrified forest.