Petrify - Definition
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, petrify]
3: make rigid and set into a conventional pattern; "rigidify the
training schedule"; "ossified teaching methods"; "slogans
petrify our thinking" [syn: rigidify, ossify, petrify]