pet·ri·fy /ˈpɛtrəˌfaɪ/
(v.)使石化;使冷酷;使嚇呆
pet·ri·fy /ˈpɛtrəˌfaɪ/ 動詞
Pet·ri·fy, v. i.
1. To become stone, or of a stony hardness, as organic matter by calcareous deposits.
2. Fig.: To become stony, callous, or obdurate.
Like Niobe we marble grow,
And petrify with grief. --Dryden.
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Pet·ri·fy v. t. [imp. & p. p. Petrified p. pr. & vb. n. Petrifying ]
1. To convert, as any animal or vegetable matter, into stone or stony substance; as, petrified wood.
A river that petrifies any sort of wood or leaves. --Kirwan.
2. To make callous or obdurate; to transform, as by petrifaction; as, to petrify the heart. Young. “Petrifying accuracy.”
And petrify a genius to a dunce. --Pope.
A hideous fatalism, which ought, logically, to petrify your volition. --G. Eliot.
The poor, petrified journeyman, quite unconscious of what he was doing. --De Quincey.
petrify
v 1: cause to become stone-like or stiff or dazed and stunned;
"The horror petrified his feelings"; "Fear petrified her
thinking"
2: change into stone; "the wood petrified with time" [syn: lapidify]
3: make rigid and set into a conventional pattern; "rigidify
the training schedule"; "ossified teaching methods";
"slogans petrify our thinking" [syn: rigidify, ossify]
[also: petrified]