English-Thai Dictionary

petrify

VI กลายเป็น หิน  klai-pen-hin

 

petrify

VT ทำให้ กลายเป็น หิน  ทำให้ เป็น หิน  mineralize solidify harden concrete soften melt tam-hai-klai-pen-hin

 

petrify

VT ทำให้ ตกตะลึง (เพราะ ความกลัว  ทำให้ ตัว แข็งทื่อ (เพราะ ความกลัว  dumbfound frighten startle calm soothe comfort tam-hai-tok-ta-luang

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

PETRIFY

v.t.[L. petra; Gr. a stone or rock, and facio, to make. ] 1. To convert to stone or stony substance; as an animal or vegetable substance.
North of Quito, there is a river that petrifies any sort of wood or leaves.
2. To make callous or obdurate; as, to petrify the heart.
And petrify a genius to a dunce.
3. To fix; as, to petrify one with astonishment.

 

PETRIFY

v.i.To become stone, or of a stony hardness, as animal or vegetable substances by means of calcarious or other depositions in their cavities.

 

PETRIFYING

ppr. Converting into stone; as petrifying operation.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

PETRIFY

Pet "ri *fy, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Petrified; p. pr. & vb. n.Petrifying. ] Etym: [L. petra rock, Gr. -fy: cf. F. pétrifier. Cf. Parrot, Petrel, Pier. ]

 

1. To convert, as any animal or vegetable matter, into stone or stony substance. A river that petrifies any sort of wood or leaves. Kirwan.

 

2. To make callous or obdurate; to stupefy; to paralyze; to transform; as by petrifaction; as, to petrify the heart. Young. "Petrifying accuracy. " Sir W. Scott. And petrify a genius to a dunce. Pope. The poor, petrified journeyman, quite unconscious of what he was doing. De Quincey. A hideous fatalism, which ought, logically, to petrify your volition. G. Eliot.

 

PETRIFY

PETRIFY Pet "ri *fy, v. i.

 

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

 

2. Fig. : To become stony, callous, or obdurate. Like Niobe we marble grow, And petrify with grief. Dryden.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

petrify

pet ri fy |ˈpetrəˌfī ˈpɛtrəˌfaɪ | ▶verb ( petrifies, petrifying, petrified ) [ with obj. ] 1 make (someone ) so frightened that they are unable to move or think: his icy controlled quietness petrified her. 2 change (organic matter ) into a stony concretion by encrusting or replacing its original substance with a calcareous, siliceous, or other mineral deposit. ORIGIN late Middle English: from French pétrifier, from medieval Latin petrificare, from Latin petra ‘rock, ’ from Greek.

 

Oxford Dictionary

petrify

pet |rify |ˈpɛtrɪfʌɪ | ▶verb ( petrifies, petrifying, petrified ) [ with obj. ] 1 change (organic matter ) into a stony substance by encrusting or replacing it with a calcareous, siliceous, or other mineral deposit. 2 make (someone ) so frightened that they are unable to move: his icy controlled quietness petrified her. ORIGIN late Middle English: from French pétrifier, from medieval Latin petrificare, from Latin petra ‘rock ’, from Greek.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

petrify

petrify verb the thought of speaking in public petrified her: terrify, horrify, frighten, scare, scare /frighten to death, scare /frighten the living daylights out of, scare /frighten the life out of, strike terror into, put the fear of God into; paralyze, transfix; informal scare the pants off, scare the bejesus out of.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

petrify

petrify verb the thought of speaking in public petrified her: terrify, horrify, frighten, scare, scare to death, scare someone out of their wits, scare witless, scare the living daylights out of, frighten the life out of, strike terror into, fill with fear, put the fear of God into, make someone's blood run cold, chill someone's blood, panic, throw into a panic, alarm, appal; paralyse, stun, stupefy, transfix; informal scare the pants off; Brit. informal throw into a blue funk, put the wind up; Irish informal scare the bejesus out of; archaic affright.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

petrify

pet ri fy /pétrɪfàɪ /動詞 -fies ; -fied ; ～ing 他動詞 1 〈有機物 〉を石化する, 化石にする .2 【恐怖などで 】…を茫然 （ぼうぜん ）自失させる, 身動きできなくさせる, すくませる «with » .3 …を硬直させる, かたくする .自動詞 1 石化する, 化石になる .2 茫然自失する, すくむ .3 硬直する .4 無感覚 [無神経 ]になる .