(p. a.) Impressed with fear or apprehension; in fear; apprehensive.
Example Sentences:
(1) Don't be afraid of being pigeonholed - it's great to have a niche.
(2) I personally felt grateful that British TV set itself apart from its international rivals in this way, not afraid to challenge, to stretch the mind and imagination.
(3) Clarke varies the intensity of sessions but for most of the time it's go hard or go home: I've learned that neither more pain nor being sick are anything to be afraid of.
(4) "Don't be afraid to talk and ask questions, even with your teachers around.
(5) The Federal Penal Service rejected a request from Alyokhina and Tolokonnikova to serve their remaining time in Moscow; given the high profile nature of their case, they are afraid for their safety in the communal environment of a correctional colony.
(6) What I saw Aid workers speak out about mental health: 'I was afraid they would think I couldn't handle it' Read more The first place I visited was Nyamirambo, a neighbourhood in the south-west part of Kigali.
(7) The uniformed man who faced them was young and afraid.
(8) I want to raise awareness about the number of people who now feel afraid on our streets and map areas where people at risk can feel safest,” said the site’s founder, Hanna Thomas.
(9) Co-operatives should not be afraid to champion radical causes, or engage with controversial issues, but this must not involve affronting customers, or turning our backs on good people of different political persuasions.
(10) Through small and large acts of deprivation and destruction we follow the process: the removal of hope, of dignity, of luxury, of necessity, of self; the reduction of a man to a hoarder of grey slabs of bread and the scrapings of a soup bowl (wonderfully told all this, with a novelist's gift for detail and sometimes very nearly comic surprise), to the confinement of a narrow bed – in which there is "not even any room to be afraid" – with a stranger who doesn't speak your language, to the cruel illogicality of hating a fellow victim of oppression more than you hate the oppressor himself – one torment following another, and even the bleak comfort of thinking you might have touched rock bottom denied you as, when the most immediate cause of a particular stress comes to an end, "you are grievously amazed to see that another one lies behind; and in reality a whole series of others".
(11) If you, too, are feeling down about the fight ahead, don’t be afraid to ask your elders for guidance.
(12) Women with later menarche attached less importance to sex, were more afraid of labour pains and thought less of labour preparation courses.
(13) So, if the Fed is afraid that the fiscal cliff may cause a disruption so big that even the Fed's all-encompassing embrace of the markets can't fix it, then it's Chairman Bernanke's word – and not that of Congress – that carries the most weight.
(14) Subjects who stated that they were not afraid of methadone, frequently injected drugs, and rarely used crack were more likely to express intentions to enroll and remain in community methadone treatment.
(15) The drug pipeline is going to be slow, I’m afraid,” the CDC director, Tom Frieden, told NBC’s Meet the Press.
(16) I was afraid of getting lost, but did not lose myself even once.
(17) On our own, we're quietly afraid that nobody remembers us for the right reasons.
(18) I suppose he was afraid he might be there for the rest of his life.
(19) I went inside, and the sound of the rain on the roof and the darkness inside made me very afraid.
(20) "If we are afraid of the religious impact, we need to work from now to help in the revolution, to be able, after, to rebuild."
Petrify
Definition:
(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.
Example Sentences:
(1) Barry Roux, Burger added: "I heard petrified screaming before the gunshots and just after the gunshots.
(2) It was pitch black, I had to struggle against the water to get him to safety and I was petrified," she recalls.
(3) He appeared "shaking and petrified" the day before the shootings, telling Jacques: "I might as well top myself."
(4) And the one thing he is petrified of is genuine political dissent which he cannot control.
(5) I understand there are rules about uniform,” said one mother, Sian Williams, whose year 7 daughter managed to pass the uniform check, “but to be so strict and allow children to feel that way on their first day of school must have been petrifying for them.” Another parent, Phillipa Turner, wrote on Facebook: “My niece was one of these children sent home today, first day of a new school and she didn’t even make it into the school gates.
(6) I was there a very long time, maybe eight to 10 hours,” said Chevoughn, who remembered being “petrified”, particularly as police questioned her in what she calls a “cage”.
(7) Imagine what she went through in that toilet, petrified, waiting for God to save her,” she says.
(8) The high quartz content makes the petrified wood very hard: it can only be cut by a diamond-tipped saw.
(9) When I was elected as chair, I was petrified of the possibility of failing the staff team, our membership and the thousands of young people we reach.
(10) Electron microscopical study indicates: --numerous intracytoplasmic lipid inclusions of various type (droplets, crystals, concentric lamellar bodies, ceroid granules) in dermal cells (histiocytic foam cells, endothelial cells, Schwann cells, fibroblasts and most cells); --large intranuclear inclusions in some histiocytes containing few lipids droplets; these figures could be compared to a slice of "petrified wood"; their significance is as yet unknown (Liesegang rings?
(11) To the right, two prosecutors in blue uniforms sit at a desk in front of four windows looking on to a brick building with a snowy parapet and a tree petrified in ice.
(12) Remember: removal of petrified wood or other material is strictly prohibited by federal law!
(13) The 70 or so technicians and engineers, known as the Fukushima 50, have been working under the constant threat of radiation sickness, fires and explosions since they became the sole occupants of an area that has become a no-go zone for tens of thousands of petrified residents.
(14) Once again, Holland were reminded why it is only really the English who tend to be more petrified of penalties.
(15) The city lives on cement, as if it also flowed down the mountains to settle in petrified squares – poor houses, rich houses, triple-decker freeways, malls, sculptures – all cement, clean and jagged, painted, naked or white, in between parks and clumps of nature; but the valley's sheer scale, along with the size of the sky, rescues it all.
(16) He and his petrified family members repeatedly told law enforcement agents presenting themselves at his residence to arrange for interviews in the presence of lawyers (who later followed up with agencies) – something law enforcement officials repeatedly declined to do.
(17) Auricular ossificans (ectopic ossification) is a rare phenomenon in which the rigidity of the petrified ear is due to replacement of the elastic cartilage by bone.
(18) We’re absolutely petrified about this,” says Unison’s Newcastle branch secretary, Paul Gilroy.
(19) The North Korea leader is reportedly petrified of flying, preferring to travel long distances in his luxury train equipped with conference rooms and hi-tech communications.
(20) Useful link navajonationparks.org Petrified Forest national park Petrified Forest National Park, Badlands, Arizona.