Crossword-Solution: PETRIFIED
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Petrified | imp. & p. p. | of Petrify |
We have 6 clues for the answer “PETRIFIED”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Extremely scared | 1 answer |
| Numbed with fear | 1 answer |
| Stupefied with astonishment | 1 answer |
| Scared and then some | 3 answers |
| Terror-stricken | 4 answers |
| Afraid | 45 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with PETRIFIED (5)
Amongst any other population, or at a later period in the history of New England, the grim rigidity that petrified the bearded physiognomies of these good people would have augured some awful business in hand.
Now my idea of the meaningless term “instinct” is, that it is merely _petrified thought; _solidified and made inanimate by habit; thought which was once alive and awake, but is become unconscious—walks in its sleep, so to speak.
The old lady stood petrified with astonishment, peering over her glasses; Tom lay on the floor expiring with laughter.
For the most remarkable aspect of the affair was, that, at the cessation of the music, everybody was petrified at once, from the most extravagant life into a dead torpor.
Rokoff stood as though petrified, his eyes protruding from their sockets, his mouth agape, and the cold sweat of terror clammy upon his brow.
Quotes with PETRIFIED (3)
I can't believe I said it out loud. The truth doesn't set you free, you know. It makes you feel awkward and embarrassed and defenseless and red in the face and horrified and petrified and vulnerable. But free? I don't feel free. I feel like shit.
Sometimes I hear the world discussed as the realm of men. This is not my experience. I have watched men fall to the ground like leaves. They were swept up as memories, and burned. History owns them. These men were petrified in both senses of the word: paralyzed and turned to stone. Their refusal to express feeling killed them. Anachronistic men. Those poor, poor boys.
Language-lovers know that there is a word for every fear. Are you afraid of wine? Then you have oenophobia. Tremulous about train travel? You suffer from siderodromophobia. Having misgivings about your mother-in-law is pentheraphobia, and being petrified of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth is arachibutyrophobia. And then there’s Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s affliction, the fear of fear itself, or phobophobia.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1983–2018).