petrify (v.)

  1. cause to become stonelike 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 ]

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