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Meaning of word petrify from English dictionary with examples, synonyms and antonyms.

petrify verb

Meaning : Cause to become stonelike or stiff or dazed and stunned from fright.

Example : The horror petrified his feelings.
Fear petrified her thinking.

Meaning : Change into stone.

Example : The wood petrified with time.

Synonyms : lapidify

Meaning : Make rigid and set into a conventional pattern.

Example : Rigidify the training schedule.
Ossified teaching methods.
Slogans petrify our thinking.

Synonyms : ossify, rigidify

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The ambiguity of an individual word or phrase that can be used (in different contexts) to express two or more different meanings.

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Benefit.

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A criminal who takes property belonging to someone else with the intention of keeping it or selling it.

palatalised (adjective)
Produced with the front of the tongue near or touching the hard palate (as `y') or with the blade of the tongue near the hard palate (as `ch' in `chin' or `j' in `gin').

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An act that exploits or victimizes someone (treats them unfairly).

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Get stuck while doing something.

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Either of two irregularly shaped bones that form the back of the hard palate and helps to form the nasal cavity and the floor of the orbits.

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(Middle Ages) the lord of a palatinate who exercised sovereign powers over his lands.

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Adversity resulting from being made a victim.