(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.