What's the difference between gorgonize and petrify?

Gorgonize


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To have the effect of a Gorgon upon; to turn into stone; to petrify.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The blue and the black wildebeest, Connochaetes taurinus and C. gnou, are currently classified as congeneric, but previous reports have placed C. taurinus in its own genus, Gorgon.
  • (2) That, suggest Gorgon City, is the one thing they need to be careful of – label politics getting in the way of making music.
  • (3) Read more Reputex says the detailed rules confirm none of Australia’s top 20 emitting facilities – including brown coal-fired power stations Loy Yang A and B and Hazelwood, and new liquefied natural gas processing facilities such as Wheatstone, Gorgon, Itchys and Pluto – will be forced to reduce emissions.
  • (4) The peculiar V-shaped mouth with its pointed upper lip, the absence of brow ridges, the absence of a chin beneath the wedgelike lower lip, the incessant quivering of this mouth, the Gorgon groups of tentacles".
  • (5) She has got an only child and she is concerned that if she doesn't have another one, her currently happy and well-balanced three year old is somehow going to mutate into a gorgon of bitterness and despair.
  • (6) Reputex says the detailed rules, signed off by cabinet on Tuesday, confirm that none of Australia’s top 20 emitting facilities – including brown coal-fired power stations Loy Yang A and B and Hazelwood, and new LNG processing facilities such as Wheatstone, Gorgon, Itchys and Pluto – will be forced to reduce emissions.
  • (7) Jess and Sinead are working on solo records that have more of a soul and R&B sound; MNEK writes and produces for other pop stars including Kylie and Little Mix, and is readying his own album of quirky electro-funk for release later in the year; Gorgon City have been working on an album “that’s timeless, not just a 2014 house record”; and Duke Dumont still spends most of his time DJing underground house.
  • (8) Madonna is portrayed as a baby-grabbing gorgon, lambasted by everyone from Saturday Night Live to Graham Norton.
  • (9) MNEK has sung on tracks for Duke Dumont and Gorgon City; Gorgon City produced the new single by Jess Glynne; Jess Glynne is lifelong best mates with Sinead Harnett.
  • (10) Everyone round this table has that same pressure, they don’t want to be known as just a pop-house act,” adds Kai of Gorgon City.
  • (11) We’ve set things changing now, and though it’s scary, I’d be happy if it all changed again.” Gorgon City’s Here For You is out on Mon
  • (12) On the US side, there were more than 100 CIA-led drone strikes in Pakistan last year and the Pentagon is about to deploy its intimidatingly named Gorgon Stare airborne surveillance system, a multi-image video device for tracking suspects across large areas.
  • (13) First and foremost, we’ve all partied with each other,” explains Matt from Gorgon City.
  • (14) The party always comes first.” “I was with Gorgon City in Ibiza last year,” recalls Jess.
  • (15) The dredging involved the removal of 7m cubic metres of seabed to create a channel to accommodate ships for the Gorgon natural gas project.

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.

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