petrify
US: /ˈpɛtɹəˌfaɪ/
UK: /pˈɛtɹɪfˌaɪ/
UK: /pˈɛtɹɪfˌaɪ/
English Vietnamese dictionary
petrify /'petrifai/
- ngoại động từ
- biến thành đá
- (nghĩa bóng) làm sững sờ, làm chết điếng; làm ngay đơ ra
- to be petrified with fear: sợ chết điếng
- to be petrified with amazement: ngạc nhiên sững sờ cả người
- (nghĩa bóng) làm tê liệt, làm mất hết sức sống (tâm trí, lý thuyết...)
- nội động từ
- hoá đá
- (nghĩa bóng) sững sờ, chết điếng; ngay đơ ra
- (nghĩa bóng) tê liệt
Advanced English dictionary
+ verb (petrifies, petrifying, petrified, petrified)
1 [VN] to make sb feel extremely frightened
Synonym: TERRIFY
Just the thought of making a speech petrifies me. + His icy stare petrified her.
2 [V, VN] to change or to make sth change into a substance like stone
Thesaurus dictionary
v.
1 frighten, scare, horrify, terrify, paralyse, numb, benumb:
I was petrified by the noise of the explosion.
2 shock, dumbfound or dumfound, stun, astonish, astound, amaze, confound, disconcert, stupefy, appal, Colloq flabbergast:
The sight of so much destruction petrified even hardened reporters.
3 ossify, fossilize, turn to stone:
Over thousands of years the desert conditions petrify the wood.
Concise English dictionary
petrified|petrifies|petrifying'petrɪfaɪ
verb
+cause to become stonelike or stiff or dazed and stunned
+change into stone
+make rigid and set into a conventional pattern
