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Grammar : Verb |
Spell : pe-truh-fahy |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈpɛ trəˌfaɪ |
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Définition of petrifying
Origin :- 1590s, from Middle French pétrifier "to make or become stone" (16c.), from Latin petra "rock, crag" (see petrous) + -ficare, from facere "to make, do" (see factitious). Metaphoric sense of "paralyze with fear or shock" first recorded 1771. Related: Petrified; petrifying.
- verb make hard
- verb frighten
- But she is also represented in one of the stories as petrifying her victims.
- Extract from : « Russian Fairy Tales » by W. R. S. Ralston
- But this petrifying influence of words is after all only a superficial explanation.
- Extract from : « Essays in Experimental Logic » by John Dewey
- This song, so unusual among these insects, has the effect of petrifying the bees.
- Extract from : « The Insect World » by Louis Figuier
- I shrunk back, as if to avoid some petrifying influence that approached me.
- Extract from : « Wieland; or The Transformation » by Charles Brockden Brown
- This 'Petrifying Liquid' was a source of much merriment to the hands.
- Extract from : « The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists » by Robert Tressell
- They keep us from petrifying altogether during the dull seasons.
- Extract from : « Homeburg Memories » by George Helgesen Fitch
- He is as stiff as if he had been dipped in petrifying water and turned into his own statue.
- Extract from : « Character Writings of the 17th Century » by Various
- The petrifying influence of surprise yielded to the impetuosities of passion.
- Extract from : « Edgar Huntley » by Charles Brockden Brown
- The war was fast teaching me its petrifying lesson—to be incapable of horror.
- Extract from : « Tell England » by Ernest Raymond
- There it opens out into huge caverns, and rises up into great cracks and chambers caused by the petrifying stony water.
- Extract from : « First in the Field » by George Manville Fenn
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