petrify :: Lexipedia - Where words have meaning

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v. cause to become stonelike or stiff or dazed and stunned; "The horror petrified his feelings"; "Fear petrified her thinking"

v. change into stone; "the wood petrified with time"

v. make rigid and set into a conventional pattern; "rigidify the training schedule"; "ossified teaching methods"; "slogans petrify our thinking"

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v. make numb or insensitive; "The shock numbed her senses"

v. make powerless and unable to function; "The bureaucracy paralyzes the entire operation"

v. make vapid or deprive of spirit; "deadened wine"

v. cause to freeze; "Freeze the leftover food"

v. make hard or harder; "The cold hardened the butter"

v. make stiff or stiffer; "Stiffen the cream by adding gelatine"

v. make solid or more solid; cause to solidify

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