Crossword-Solution: PETRIFY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Petrify | v. t. | To convert, as any animal or vegetable matter, into stone or stony substance. |
| Petrify | v. t. | To make callous or obdurate; to stupefy; to paralyze; to transform; as by petrifaction; as, to petrify the heart. Young. |
| Petrify | v. i. | To become stone, or of a stony hardness, as organic matter by calcareous deposits. |
| Petrify | v. i. | Fig.: To become stony, callous, or obdurate. |
We have 42 clues for the answer “PETRIFY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| TURN into stone | 1 answer |
| Become stone | 1 answer |
| Change organic matter into stone | 1 answer |
| Get rocky? | 1 answer |
| Immobilize, as with fear | 1 answer |
| Paralyze with fear | 1 answer |
| Scare and then some | 1 answer |
| Scare badly | 1 answer |
| Scare silly | 1 answer |
| Scare stiff | 2 answers |
| Turn to stone | 2 answers |
| CALCIFY | 2 answers |
| make hard | 4 answers |
| turn to bone | 4 answers |
| CURDLE the blood | 5 answers |
| Immobilize | 7 answers |
| ossify | 7 answers |
| fossilise | 8 answers |
| fill with fear | 13 answers |
| vitrify | 13 answers |
| Paralyze | 13 answers |
| indurate | 17 answers |
| appall | 18 answers |
| benumb | 18 answers |
| Paralyse | 18 answers |
| Terrify | 20 answers |
| Toughen | 20 answers |
| MAKE rigid | 21 answers |
| Stiffen | 22 answers |
| overawe | 29 answers |
| desensitise | 30 answers |
| MAKE unwilling | 31 answers |
| appal | 32 answers |
| MAKE lifeless | 33 answers |
| Scare ___ | 33 answers |
| Unnerve | 34 answers |
| DEPRIVE of strength | 35 answers |
| Stupefy | 42 answers |
| Amaze | 46 answers |
| Numb | 47 answers |
| Frighten | 53 answers |
| Incapacitate | 55 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 PETRIFY (5)
And as the frantic wielders of these weapons snatched them from the stream of sparks and tore away into the streets, the same red hue was red in their frenzied eyes;--eyes which any unbrutalised beholder would have given twenty years of life, to petrify with a well-directed gun.
The declaration he had just heard—a declaration which he well knew, as I well knew, Madame Fosco would not have ventured to make without her husband’s permission—seemed to petrify him with surprise.
Suppose the offer were this: You shall die slowly; your blood shall daily grow cold, your flesh petrify, your heart beat at last only as a rusted group of iron valves.
She strode in the centre of the road, a very volcano of silence, thinking twenty different thoughts at the one moment, so that the urgency of her desire for utterance kept her terribly quiet; but against this crust of quietude there was accumulating a mass of speech which must at the last explode or petrify.
Paisley’s scheme was to petrify ’em with wonderful relations of events that he had either come across personally or in large print.
Quotes with PETRIFY (3)
If you try to find a replacement, you'll be sadly disappointed, I can't be replaced. I'm the only man in all the world who possesses the right combination of qualities for you. You can turn your Ballister stare upon me all you like, but you can't petrify me. You can knock me about to your heart's content without worrying about doing any damage. You can perpetrate any sort of outrage your wicked mind conceives and be sure I'll join in, with a will. You're a troublemaker, Lydia…
But even a vessel pulsates, beats and pumps in ecstasy and in rage! I wonder are the way we are because we are trying to protect ourselves from the “monsters” not realizing this fear that we are harboring inside us is turning us into goblins and ghouls ourselves? Not even a heart caged inside of ribs can be protected. Who can really be to blame for your broken heart? In-turn we find our own vices , our own ways to cope, ways that we petrify our bodies our lives in such a fash…
We are to allow one thing to be really and truly distinct from the other, to be its own genuine self. There is a logical and philosophical urge in thinking men to reduce all things to a single unity. But this urge of the natural reason tends to petrify the heart. There is no single essence to which all existing things belong, no single essence which makes all things basically one. The only true unity of created things is the unity created by love. The heart embraces all thing…
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Appears in: LAT, Newsday, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 8 times in crossword archives (2000–2024).