What's the difference between petrified and stupefied?

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.

Stupefied


Definition:

  • (a.) Having been made stupid.
  • (imp. & p. p.) of Stupefy

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Between 2002 and 2008, Worboys, who was jailed for life in 2009, carried out more than 100 rapes and sexual assaults using alcohol and drugs to stupefy his victims, said Mr Justice Green at London's high court.
  • (2) The US Congress, its approval rating still near all-time lows , is reinforcing its own record of stupefyingly short-sighted lawmaking with what may be the most harmful piece of economic legislation in America in years: the $1tn 2013 farm bill .
  • (3) Like its predecessors (The Tudors, Spartacus, Camelot etc) the 10-part potboiler is awash with wrecking ball exposition, window-rattling anachronisms and scenes in which heritage hardbodies have shouting backwards sex next to stupefied livestock.
  • (4) It was a ridiculous goal, one that had a stupefying effect on this stadium.
  • (5) Yes, we pound along after prickly DS Gibson as she quietly humiliates stupefied subordinates and draws important red circles around photos with her big Met-issued marker pen.
  • (6) It's debased and stupefied, really, but that's daily politics."
  • (7) He was used and made to look ridiculous in front of those he governs.” Why Trump was invited and then treated so softly left pundits stupefied, especially since Peña Nieto, who is not known for verbal jousting or talking without scripts, missed such a good chance to improve his poor approval rating.
  • (8) Late summer saw a surprising population explosion of wasps, with many wandering around apparently stupefied by gorging on too much honeydew (the sugary excretion of aphids).
  • (9) But I think we should regard it as a moment for opportunity.” Johnson had previously called Trump “ill-informed” and said his comments on Islam showed “a quite stupefying ignorance that makes him frankly unfit to hold the office of president of the United States”.
  • (10) Richard Pasquier, head of the Jewish umbrella group the Crif, not usually critical of the government, said he was "shocked" and "stupefied" by Fillon's comments.
  • (11) Because everywhere where they love their football, the memory lingers of that stupefying free-kick in Le Tournoi in France in 1997 when he bent the ball, defying every law of football physics as hitherto understood, around the outside of a defensive wall with the outside of his left foot, from 35 yards, past a mute, helpless and utterly immobile Fabien Barthez.
  • (12) Wodehouse wrote that a Briton could easily stupefy himself with food at Simpson’s, and quite cheaply, too.
  • (13) Our pharmaceutical industries produce a cornucopia of prescription drugs – eye-opening, stupefying, mood-swinging, game-changing, anxiety-alleviating, performance-enhancing – currently at a global market-value of more than $300bn.
  • (14) What followed was extraordinary even before we reached those final, stupefying moments.
  • (15) Drawn by Russia’s finest political cartoonist, Sergey Elkin , it is at once a powerful portrayal of the stupefying influence of Kremlin-controlled TV and an indication of why neither increasingly harsh western sanctions nor international allegations of Russian culpability in the destruction of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 are likely to damage Vladimir Putin’s soaring popularity at home.
  • (16) Reductive drugs: lowering the intensity of sensations and emotions, in three kinds: a) Releaser drugs, causing removal of inhibitions and production of phantasies; b) Sedation drugs, easing tensions and anxieties; c) Stupefying drugs, blurring all contact with the outer world.
  • (17) There you were, going through life like a stupefied Commie drone, until you got lit up by some smilin’ Wasilla sunshine, and now you can’t get enough.
  • (18) The idea is the mental construct of a powerful lobby, the British navy, its cheerleaders and its suppliers, with their hands on stupefying amounts of public money and an ability to scare politicians into pandering to their interest.
  • (19) Unaccompanied child refugees' suffering on route to Europe laid bare Read more Most of the unaccompanied minors in Catania rarely seem to leave the patch of grass near the station, sitting quietly throughout the stupefying afternoon heat, occasionally washing in the fountain dedicated to the ancient Roman goddess Proserpina.
  • (20) Some news from the sticks: across England and Wales, 41 elections for police commissioners will take place in just over a week, but the buildup to this supposedly watershed moment is stupefyingly quiet.