(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.
Terrorise
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) One day they hope to recreate a full-size, ocean-going replica Roskilde 6, and send it across the sea to awe rather than to terrorise the coasts of the British Isles.
(2) Where people were terrorised into leaving, Karadžić claimed it was the work of “criminals or renegades, and people carrying out retaliation whose own homes were burned”.
(3) You’ve got some heavy-handed goon who thinks they can just come storming in and terrorise people who are trying to carry on their duties.
(4) Nick Collins is at Arsenal but has taken somehow talked himself inside the ground so he doesn't get terrorised by the Gooner youths.
(5) 5.41pm BST 38 min: Now it's Oar terrorising the Netherlands!
(6) That was before Scorsese stepped into the debate with a firmly-worded open letter to the LA Times calling for Blackie to be added to the list of nominees for what he described as "an uncompromising performance as a ferocious guard dog who terrorises children" in Hugo, which is up for 11 Oscars.
(7) Agüero terrorised his opponents, scored four times, missed a penalty and, in the process, caught and overhauled his compatriot Carlos Tevez’s scoring record in City’s colours.
(8) "Israel wanted many deaths to terrorise us and to send a message that no future aid convoys should try to break the siege of Gaza," she told journalists this week.
(9) Its beneficial for them to keep terrorising and making life as painful as possible for people living in areas they don’t control.” The latest apparent attack happened after opposition fighters broke a siege on eastern Aleppo.
(10) The seeds were sown in March last year when the Seleka, a largely Muslim rebel group, seized Bangui in a coup, installed the country's first Muslim president, Michel Djotodia, and terrorised the majority Christian population, killing men, women and children .
(11) Their fate is to be terrorised by the wrong kind of bombs, the ones dropped by Bashar al-Assad and Vladimir Putin.
(12) One reason for Rushdie's fury could be that an identity forged on terrorising a fiction writer, with its direct associations of violence and censorship, is not a fair one to hang on two million Britons.
(13) Here was the team that comes at opponents in a blur of red and terrorises them with their attacking prowess.
(14) Authorities reject the criticism and say the strike is an attempt by gang leaders to regain the ability to terrorise fellow prisoners, staff and communities throughout California .
(15) A mutiny led by war crimes suspect Bosco "The Terminator" Ntaganda has been slicing through the region with apparent ease, terrorising and displacing hundreds of thousands of people.
(16) "They clearly want to terrorise me, and in doing so shut up the press so, and I don't want to be their hostage.
(17) Who is being terrorised and fear for their safety on a daily basis?
(18) "Death squads and civilian casualties and underarmed soldiers and strategic mishaps and the brutalisation of soldiers and the terrorising of civilians: the worst fears we had about that war just came flooding through, and I thought it was extraordinary."
(19) Thousands of civilians have emerged from weeks in prison following the protests with accounts of brutal torture aimed at extracting "confessions" and at terrorising a new generation of Burmese into acquiescing to military rule.
(20) Its aim is to terrorise its enemies, mobilise its supporters and polarise communities to make further violence more likely.