What's the difference between petrified and scared?

Petrified


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Petrify

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.

Scared


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Scare

Example Sentences:

  • (1) No one deserves to walk out of the theatre feeling scared, humiliated or rejected.
  • (2) "At first, after the [anti-Putin] protests started in December, the authorities got scared that they had lost control," Polozov said.
  • (3) Even in the best case this would cause a serious shock to the UK economy.” The CBI report angered Brexit campaigners, who believe the government is trying to scare voters into supporting Britain remaining in the EU.
  • (4) But even with all of that, and country radio always looking for its next hit, they are still scared of it.
  • (5) Suffice to say, it was a long, difficult haul with various scares and alarms along the way.
  • (6) He wasn't the first to employ such scare tactics: in late October, the mayor of the Urals city of Izhevsk was caught on video telling veterans that their government allowances would be raised if United Russia received a high percentage of the vote.
  • (7) The proportion of people who say they will change their shopping habits – or claim they would buy more fresh meat, cut down on ready meals or avoid products from companies linked to the scare – has dropped from 52% at the height of the furore to 47%.
  • (8) "They're scared," one woman says April 15, 2014 max seddon (@maxseddon) Slavyansk residents are marching to defend their local airstrip, which is a cornfield with no fuel, working planes, or real runway April 15, 2014 Updated at 5.20pm BST 5.04pm BST There are conflicting reports of casualties at Kramatorsk airport, taken by Ukrainian forces Tuesday afternoon local time.
  • (9) A Tamil asylum seeker, speaking on condition on anonymity, fears being re-detained or deported: We are scared to go and meet the government.
  • (10) You’d think such a spry, successful man would busy himself with other things besides crawling into a pile of stuffed animals to scare his daughter’s date.
  • (11) Listen to Stoopid Symbol Of Woman Hate or Can't Stand Up For 40-Inch Busts (both songs were inspired by a hatred of sexist advertising) and you can hear Amon Duul and Hawkwind scaring the living shit out of Devo and Clock DVA.
  • (12) Richards was a feminist who, rather than scaring men, stung them with her wit, a technique she famously applied to President George Bush senior in what became a legendary quip in American politics.
  • (13) It hasn't helped that ministers have talked the economy down, which has scared people.
  • (14) People are scared at first of open kitchens because they fear it will force them to act in a certain way and they're right.
  • (15) Neither of us are rampant or militant or any of those other descriptors anti-feminists fling about to scare those who stand up for their rights.
  • (16) "This is an area we've been scared about for years."
  • (17) Anthony Wells, director of YouGov’s political and social research team, said: “While there will be speculation about whether this movement is connected to the tragic death of Jo Cox, we do not think that it is... We are now in the final week of the referendum campaign and the swing back towards the status quo appears to be in full force.” EU referendum voters unconvinced by scare tactics: ‘I just want to do what’s right’ Read more Today, both sides will resume their battle to capture the votes of the undecided and to persuade people to switch sides, though both the Leave and Remain camps say that the manner of their campaigning will be more sober and less combative.
  • (18) And scared that there would be a very public backlash; that I'd be punished."
  • (19) I was like, ‘Yeah, I’m scary, I’ll fuckin’ scare you then.
  • (20) "Some soldiers won't fire on the Egyptian people, but others are too scared to disobey orders.