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petrify /'petrifai/

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(-fied)

(chủ yếu ở dạng bị động) làm đờ ra, làm sững sờ

be petrified with terror

sợ đờ người ta

[làm cho] hóa đá
verb

-fies; -fied; -fying

[+ obj] :to make (someone) very afraid

It petrifies [=terrifies] me to think of how close we came to dying.

technical :to slowly change (something, such as wood) into stone or a substance like stone over a very long period of time [+ obj]

the processes that petrify wood [no obj]

The dead tree petrified into stone.
verb

I was petrified by the noise of the explosion

frighten

scare

horrify

terrify

paralyse

numb

benumb

The sight of so much destruction petrified even hardened reporters

shock

dumbfound or dumfound

stun

astonish

astound

amaze

confound

disconcert

stupefy

appal

Colloq flabbergast

Over thousands of years the desert conditions petrify the wood

ossify

fossilize

turn to stone