Word Meaning

Meaning of "petrify" and the crossword clue

- Frighten greatly
- Make lifeless
- Turn Into Stone
- To convert, as any animal or vegetable matter, into stone or stony substance.
- To make callous or obdurate; to stupefy; to paralyze; to transform; as by petrifaction; as, to petrify the heart. Young.
- To become stone, or of a stony hardness, as organic matter by calcareous deposits.
- Fig.: To become stony, callous, or obdurate.