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.
To convert, as any animal or vegetable matter, into stone or stony substance.
Verb
cause to become stone-like or stiff or dazed and stunned; "The horror petrified his feelings"; "Fear petrified her thinking"
Verb
make rigid and set into a conventional pattern; "rigidify the training schedule"; "ossified teaching methods"; "slogans petrify our thinking"
Verb
change into stone; "the wood petrified with time"
v. t.
To convert, as any animal or vegetable matter, into
stone or stony substance.
v. t.
To make callous or obdurate; to stupefy; to paralyze;
to transform; as by petrifaction; as, to petrify the heart. Young.
v. i.
To become stone, or of a stony hardness, as organic
matter by calcareous deposits.
v. i.
Fig.: To become stony, callous, or obdurate.
Petrify
A river that petrifies any sort of wood or leaves.2.
And petrify a genius to a dunce.
The poor, petrified journeyman, quite unconscious of what he was doing.
A hideous fatalism, which ought, logically, to petrify your volition.
Petrify
Like Niobe we marble grow, And petrify with grief.
To convert, as any animal or vegetable matter, into stone or stony substance.
To become stone, or of a stony hardness, as organic matter by calcareous deposits.
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