petrify

verb

The horror movie petrified me.

意味（1）

To harden organic matter by permeating with water and depositing dissolved minerals.

a river that petrifies any sort of wood or leaves

意味（2）

To produce rigidity akin to stone.

意味（3）

To immobilize with fright.

意味（4）

(intransitive) To become stone, or of a stony hardness, as organic matter by calcareous deposits.

意味（5）

(intransitive, figuratively) To become stony, callous, or obdurate.

Like Niobe we marble grow, / And petrify with grief.

意味（6）

(transitive, figuratively) To make callous or obdurate; to stupefy; to paralyze; to transform; as by petrification.

petrify a genius to a dunce